Successful separation of depressed, normal, and insomniac subjects by EEG sleep data

• Published in: Archives of general psychiatry Vol. 36; no. 1; p. 85
• Main Authors: Gillin, J C, Duncan, W, Pettigrew, K D, Frankel, B L, Snyder, F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.1979
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Cerebral Cortex - physiopathology; Depression - diagnosis; Depression - physiopathology; Electroencephalography; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - physiopathology; Sleep Stages; Sleep, REM

Data from all-night EEG sleep studies were used to distinguish normal subjects, primary depressed patients, and primary insomniac patients. In part 1, we compared 41 normal subjects, 56 depressed patients, and 18 insomniacs. In a univariate comparison with normal subjects, depressed patients showed...