Short REM latency in primary alcoholic patients with secondary depression
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (1) , 106-109
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.1.106
Abstract
Primary alcoholic patients with secondary depression had significantly shorter REM latency and less non-REM sleep than alcoholics without other psychiatric diagnoses and normal control subjects. Both patient groups had significantly longer sleep latency and less sleep efficiency, total sleep time, and delta sleep than control subjects.Keywords
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