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Treating depression with sleep deprivation and consecutive sleep phase advance therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

M. Berger ,
J. Vollmann ,
F. Hohagen ,
A. König ,
H. Lohner  and
D. Riemann
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The common treatment modalities for depression, i.e. pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy have the significant disadvantage of at least a three- to four-week time lag between initiation of treatment and amelioration of mood. Total sleep deprivation (TSD) in contrast, leads to an immediate antidepressant effect in 60% of the patients. However, it has gained only little clinical relevance as usually the improvement is only transient and almost regularly reversed by the next nights of sleep. A procedure preserving the antidepressive effect of sleep deprivation would therefore be of high clinical relevance.

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total sleep deprivationslaup-wake cyclephase advancemoodtotale slaapdeprivatieslaap-waak afwisselingfase verschuivingstemming

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Research Article
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Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 50 - 51
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Copyright © Scandinavian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 1995

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