One-third of our lives is spent asleep, but the reasons why we sleep are not yet fully
understood. Sleep is a state of inactivity accompanied by a loss of awareness and a …

Treatment resistance, medication non-adherence, and side effects of pharmacotherapeutics
make treatment difficult in major depressive disorder. Sleep deprivation is a fast-acting and …

Objective: Although a combination of antidepressive pharmacotherapy with repeated sleep
deprivation therapy has proved to be an effective and easily applied treatment strategy, no …

Insomnia in psychiatric patients is frequently underestimated in clinical practice. Usually
drugs are prescribed for the treatment of this disorder but non-pharmacological intervention …

Introduction: New Developments for Treating Sleep Disorders Page 1 © Copyright 2001
Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. One personal copy may be printed 3 J Clin Psychiatry …

Depression is increasingly prevalent in Western countries. It has severe consequences and
is associated with increased rates of disability, morbidity, and mortality. Despite numerous …

Poor sleep is a significant risk factor for depression across the lifespan and sleep problems
have been hypothesised to contribute to the onset and maintenance of depression …

Partial or total therapeutic sleep deprivation leads to an immediate and far-reaching release
of depressive symptoms in about 60% of patients with depressive disturbances. It is for that …

Excessive sleepiness occurs frequently in the general population and is a common feature
of many psychiatric conditions. The reductions in quality of life associated with excessive …