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REM Latency in Endogenously Depressed Adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stan Kutcher ,
Peter Williamson ,
Peter Marton  and
John Szalai
Stan Kutcher*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, and Division of Adolescent Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5
Peter Williamson
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, London Psychiatric Hospital, PO Box 2532 – Terminal “A”, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4H1
Peter Marton
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
John Szalai
Affiliation:
Department of Research and Biostatistics, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Twenty-three adolescents with DSM–III major depressive disorder (endogenous subtype) and 23 normal controls were studied polysomnographically (PSG). The depressed group showed significantly shortened REM latencies (P=0.005) and longer sleep latencies (P=0.04). No other PSG measures differentiated the two groups. The implications of these findings for adolescent depression are discussed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 399 - 402
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Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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