Posted by linkadge on August 20, 2006, at 21:33:14
In reply to Re: Sleep Deprivation for depression- Update » mentallybill, posted by Phillipa on August 20, 2006, at 19:14:07
There is a difference between "not sleeping" and sleep deprivation. Not sleeping, or not sleeping well, usually involve at least some sleep, or certain sleep stages. It is not complete sleep deprivation.
Total sleep deprivation eliminates REM sleep, and produces and antidepressant effect in a large number of depressed patients, *thought not all*. It is usually not efficatious in psychotic depression.
If you are going to try it for depression, you can't get ANY sleep. Even as much as 1 second of REM sleep recorded on an EEG can result in complete relapse, that is why having a lousy night of sleep is not the same as total sleep deprivation.http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.sleepdep.html
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