Sleep deprivation in rapid-cycling bipolar affective disorder: case report.
We describe a 4-month long hypomanic response to sleep deprivation in a patient with consistent (20-day cycles) rapid cycling. He subsequently reverted to very rapid cycling; however, sleep deprivation remained effective for each attack of depression. Sleep deprivation treatment, its immediate but short-lived beneficial effect, may have a role in the treatment of the ultra-short depressions encountered in very rapid cycling.
Benjamin
J
J
Division of Psychiatry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Zohar
J
J
D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012892:Sleep Deprivation