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- Title
Sleep and dreams in eating disorders.
- Authors
Dippel, Bertram; Lauer, Christoph; Riemann, Dieter; Majer-Trendel, Katrin; Krieg, Jürgen-Christian; Berger, Mathias; Dippel, B; Lauer, C; Riemann, D; Majer-Trendel, K; Krieg, J C; Berger, M
- Abstract
The results of several studies on sleep EEG and dreams in patients with eating disorders are presented and compared with the data obtained in patients with a major depression. The sleep pattern, which is characteristic of depression, could not be found in the eating disorder group. Regarding the cholinergic REM induction test, the depressive displayed a pronounced shortening of REM sleep latency. However, this biological marker, indicating a cholinergic hyperactivity in depression, could not be observed in patients with eating disorders. The content analysis of laboratory-recorded dreams yielded several differences between depression and eating disorders and also, more subtle, between anorexia and bulimia.
- Subjects
ANOREXIA nervosa; BULIMIA; MENTAL depression; DREAMS; SLEEP stages; RAPID eye movement sleep; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, 1987, Vol 48, Issue 1-4, p165
- ISSN
0033-3190
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1159/000288048