bipolar depression | Lipman | University of Milan School of Medicine | Affective Disorders

One scientific test conducted by the University of Milan School of Medicine, published in 2001 by the Journal of Affective Disorders, placed patients with similar degrees of bipolar depression in wings with both east-facing and west-facing windows, and found that those assigned east-facing rooms recovered, and were released, four days earlier. Another study, this one conducted by rural Iowa physician Veronica Butler, MD, showed patients who slept in north-facing beds suffered significantly more depression and anxiety than those who didn't. And there are even unrelated, nonscientific studies citing more burglaries to homes facing south than to those facing any other direction.

Vedic proponents believe such studies will one day prove useful to potential home buyers,­ offering valuable, nonstructural information about a house's history, such as divorce statistics, health issues, and financial pitfalls that have befallen its former owners. It will also give architects the tools to avoid inadvertently drawing such personal misfortunes into their plans. "At the moment, architects don't keep these statistics, because it doesn't occur to us that we have any way to influence that," says Lipman. But just think about it. "If you spend enough money, you can get a good wine cellar and a large swimming pool and exotic wood doors with fantastic hinges," he says. "After you spend all that money, is your marriage going to be better? Are you going to stay healthy, or are you still going to end up getting a chronic disease? This kind of knowledge is something money couldn't buy up to this point. But if you knew that simply by living in the house, it would improve the quality of your life, who wouldn't want that information?"

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