title: [Repeated sessions of sleep deprivation in the treatment of depression].
abstract: 30 depressed patients were submitted to repeated sessions of sleep deprivation. The results obtained in a previous study were confirmed: after 36 hours of wakefulness there is an important overall improvement, albeit followed by a partial or total relapse the second day after. There are no counter-indications, even for elderly subjects with psycho-organic symptoms.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012892:Sleep Deprivation; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Les séances répétées d'agrypnie dans le traitement des dépressions.