Sleep deprivation treatment in depression: a review
Open Access
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Vol. 52 (603), 50-52
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.52.603.50
Abstract
Summary: Ten studies, including the authors' own, suggest that sleep deprivation may be a useful treatment in a third to a half of patients with endogenous depression. Caution and a controlled trial are suggested.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Disturbance of the 24-Hour Rhythm in Endogenous Depression and the Treatment of Endogenous Depression by Sleep DeprivationInternational Pharmacopsychiatry, 1971