Lithium increases slow wave sleep: possible mediation by brain 5-HT2 receptors?
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 98 (1) , 139-140
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00442020
Abstract
The effect of lithium on slow wave sleep (SWS) was studied in ten normal male volunteers using home based cassette sleep recording and automatic sleep stage analysis. Lithium increased SWS, an effect consisten with a reduction in brain 5-HT2 receptor function.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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