Dr. Anna Wirz-Justice receives Velux Prize. Basel, Switzerland. CET is thrilled to share the news of this award from the Velux Foundation to Anna Wirz-Justice, our longtime Board member and Director of Chronotherapeutics Consultants. They write: “For the first time, the Velux Foundation, together with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has given this prize for lifetime achievement. With Anna Wirz-Justice, the Velux Foundation is rewarding a scientist who has had sustained impact on the understanding of daylight’s influence on health and wellbeing, as well as the application of light therapy for psychological disorders. As Professor Emeritus, Anna Wirz-Justice is now concentrating on the implications of her biological knowledge of light for the fields of architecture and building design.”

New York Times: "Enter the Chronotherapists". New York, USA. We were glad to see this ambitious future-look at our field. Olivia Judson writes, "Here’s my prediction for the Next Big Thing in health care: chronotherapy, or therapy by the clock. . . . The implications of all this are huge. Living against your body clock — as so many of us do — can affect your health and well-being in myriad ways. . . . Chronotherapy has [been used] with great success . . . in psychiatry. Several mental disorders, including bipolar disorder, can be rapidly ameliorated by a resetting of the body clock. Indeed, it’s been argued that manipulating the body clock affects the same parts of the brain as antidepressant drugs — but that chronotherapy works faster and with fewer side effects." Read the whole story.