1. Hypersomnia and Manic-Depressive Disease
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Jonathan M. Himmelhoch, Thomas Detre, Byck R, David J. Kupfer, Swartzburg M, and C. M. Anderson
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Sleep Wake Disorders ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Bipolar Disorder ,Sleep, REM ,Disease ,medicine.disease ,Manic depressive ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,mental disorders ,Increased sleep ,medicine ,Humans ,Bipolar disorder ,Psychology ,Psychiatry ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
The authors studied 84 bipolar and unipolar depressed patients by means of a questionnaire to determine whether they showed symptoms of increased sleep time. Their finding that hypersomnia is not an unusual symptom of depression has implications both for the classification of affective disorders and for biologic research.
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- 1972
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