title: Treating depression with sleep deprivation and consecutive sleep phase advance therapy.
abstract: The common treatment modalities for depression, i.e. pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy have the significant disadvantage of at least a three- to four-week time lag between initiation of treatment and amelioration of mood. Total sleep deprivation (TSD) in contrast, leads to an immediate antidepressant effect in 60% of the patients. However, it has gained only little clinical relevance as usually the improvement is only transient and almost regularly reversed by the next nights of sleep. A procedure preserving the antidepressive effect of sleep deprivation would therefore be of high clinical relevance.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vollmann
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hohagen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: König
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lohner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Riemann