Pretreatment REM sleep and subjective sleep quality distinguish depressed psychotherapy remitters and nonremitters

Buysse, Daniel J; Tu, Xin M; Cherry, Christine R; Begley, Amy E; Kowalski, Jeanne; Kupfer, David J; Frank, Ellen

doi:10.1016/s0006-3223(98)00198-x

Pretreatment REM sleep and subjective sleep quality distinguish depressed psychotherapy remitters and nonremitters

BACKGROUND We compared pretreatment subjective and electroencephalographic sleep measures among depressed patients who remitted with psychotherapy alone and those who did not remit. METHODS Patients were 111 midlife women with recurrent major depressive disorder. Baseline psychiatric ratings and …