title: Sleep of atypical depressives.
abstract: Patients who met provincial criteria for atypical depression were contrasted with a group of patients who met RDC criteria for endogenous depression and a group of normal controls on a standard series of sleep variables. Atypical depressives were differentiated from normal controls by a shortened REMP latency. They did not, however, appear to have the sleep continuity disturbance exhibited by endogenous depressives. This preliminary work suggests that atypical depressives may have a unique pattern of sleep variables consisting of REM abnormalities without continuity disturbance. If this pattern is observed in additional studies, it would add to the validity of considering atypical depression a subtype of unipolar depressive illness.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Quitkin
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Rabkin
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: McGrath
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goetz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Puig-Antich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006970:Disorders of Excessive Somnolence / Q000523:psychology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011930:Reaction Time; D012894:Sleep Stages; D012895:Sleep, REM