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| Year : 1979 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 4-11 |
Sleep deprivation in depression
DR Doongaji, VN Vahia, PD Lakdawala, MD Parikh, AR Singh, Shubha S Thatte, Kamal D Lotlikar
Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine & Surgery-Statistics, K.E.M. Hospital and Seth G.S. Medical College, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India
Correspondence Address:
D R Doongaji
Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine & Surgery-Statistics, K.E.M. Hospital and Seth G.S. Medical College, Parel, Bombay 400 012
India
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PMID: 458741 
Ten patients diagnosed as suffering from depressive illness were treated with 2 consecutive nights of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation was effective in both types of depression viz. endogenous and reactive. The improvement was greater and seemed to last longer in endogenous depression as compared to reactive depression at the time of evaluation, 7 days after completion of sleep deprivation. Depressed mood, suicidal tendencies and retardation seemed to show the greatest improvement while insight and gastro-intestinal and somatic symptoms, improved the least.
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