Relationship between sunlight and the age of onset of bipolar disorder: an international multisite study

Bauer M 1 , Glenn T 2 , Alda M 3 , Andreassen OA 4 , Angelopoulos E 5 , Ardau R 6 Show all authors , Baethge C 7 , Bauer R 8 , Bellivier F 9 , Belmaker RH 10 , Berk M 11 , Bjella TD 4 , Bossini L 12 , Bersudsky Y 10 , Cheung EY 13 , Conell J 8 , Del Zompo M 14 , Dodd S 15 , Etain B 16 , Fagiolini A 12 , Frye MA 17 , Fountoulakis KN 18 , Garneau-Fournier J 19 , González-Pinto A 20 , Harima H 21 , Hassel S 22 , Henry C 16 , Iacovides A 18 , Isometsä ET 23 , Kapczinski F 24 , Kliwicki S 25 , König B 26 , Krogh R 27 , Kunz M 24 , Lafer B 28 , Larsen ER 27 , Lewitzka U 8 , Lopez-Jaramillo C 29 , MacQueen G 22 , Manchia M 3 , Marsh W 30 , Martinez-Cengotitabengoa M 20 , Melle I 4 , Monteith S 31 , Morken G 32 , Munoz R 33 , Nery FG 28 , O'Donovan C 3 , Osher Y 10 , Pfennig A 8 , Quiroz D 34 , Ramesar R 35 , Rasgon N 19 , Reif A 36 , Ritter P 8 , Rybakowski JK 25 , Sagduyu K 37 , Scippa ÂM 38 , Severus E 8 , Simhandl C 26 , Stein DJ 39 , Strejilevich S 40 , Sulaiman AH 41 , Suominen K 42 , Tagata H 21 , Tatebayashi Y 43 , Torrent C 44 , Vieta E 44 , Viswanath B 45 , Wanchoo MJ 17 , Zetin M 46 , Whybrow PC 47

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: michael.bauer@uniklinikum-dresden.de
  • 2 ChronoRecord Association, Fullerton, CA, USA
  • 3 Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 4 NORMENT - K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo, Norway
  • 5 Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens Medical School, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • 6 Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University-Hospital of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
  • 7 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne Medical School, Cologne, Germany
  • 8 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany
  • 9 Psychiatrie, GH Saint-Louis - Lariboisière - F. Widal, APHP, INSERM UMR-S1144, Faculté de Médecine, Université D. Diderot, Paris, France; FondaMental Fondation, Créteil, France
  • 10 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva Mental Health Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
  • 11 Deparment of Psychiatry, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile; Department of Psychiatry, ORYGEN Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, Australia; The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
  • 12 Department of Molecular Medicine and Department of Mental Health (DAI), University of Siena and University of Siena Medical Center (AOUS), Siena, Italy
  • 13 Department of General Adult Psychiatry, Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong
  • 14 Section of Neurosciences and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
  • 15 IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
  • 16 AP-HP, Hopitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor and INSERM U955 (IMRB), Université Paris Est, Creteil, France; FondaMental Fondation, Créteil, France
  • 17 Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic Depression Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
  • 18 3rd Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 19 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • 20 Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Alava, University of the Basque Country, CIBERSAM, Vitoria, Spain
  • 21 Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
  • 22 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
  • 23 Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
  • 24 Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • 25 Department of Adult Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
  • 26 BIPOLAR Zentrum Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  • 27 Department of Affective Disorders, Q, Mood Disorders Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
  • 28 Bipolar Disorder Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 29 Mood Disorders Program, Fundacion San Vicente de Paul, Department of Psychiatry, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
  • 30 Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA
  • 31 Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Traverse City Campus, Traverse City, MI, USA
  • 32 Department of Neuroscience, NTNU, and St Olavs' University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
  • 33 Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
  • 34 Deparment of Psychiatry, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
  • 35 UCT/MRC Human Genetics Research Unit, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 36 Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
  • 37 Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri Kansas City, School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA
  • 38 Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
  • 39 Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 40 Bipolar Disorder Program, Neuroscience Institute, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 41 Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 42 City of Helsinki, Department of Social Services and Health Care, Psychiatry, Helsinki, Finland
  • 43 Schizophrenia & Affective Disorders Research Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Seatagaya, Tokyo, Japan
  • 44 Clinical Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
  • 45 Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore 560029, India
  • 46 Department of Psychology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA
  • 47 Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Affect Disord, 2014;167:104-11.
PMID: 24953482 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.05.032

Abstract

The onset of bipolar disorder is influenced by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. We previously found that a large increase in sunlight in springtime was associated with a lower age of onset. This study extends this analysis with more collection sites at diverse locations, and includes family history and polarity of first episode.

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