Rate of switch from depression into mania after
therapeutic sleep deprivation in bipolar depression
by
Colombo C, Benedetti F, Barbini B, Campori E, Smeraldi E
IRCCS Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele,
Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences,
University of Milan,
School of Medicine, Italy.
Psychiatry Res 1999 Jun 30; 86(3):267-70

ABSTRACT

Sleep deprivation is a potentially useful non-pharmacological treatment for depression. A relationship between sleep loss and the onset of mania has been reported, so it is possible that a switch from depression into mania after sleep deprivation might be expected in bipolar depressed patients who are treated with sleep deprivation. In a sample of 206 bipolar depressed treated with three cycles of sleep deprivation, alone or in combination with heterogeneous medications, we observed a 4.85% switch rate into mania and a 5.83% switch rate into hypomania. These percentages are comparable to those observed with antidepressant drug treatments.

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Sleep deprivation and depression

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