Posted by linkadge on December 28, 2006, at 19:40:35
In reply to REM sleep and depression, posted by Jimmyboy on December 28, 2006, at 16:21:56
I started a thread about the exact same topic. Depressed people enter rem too early, have little rem late in sleep. In mania, supposedly it is the opposite, rem onset is significantly delayed.
My hypothesis was to test taking an anticholinergic drug right before bed, to reduce REM, and then set my alarm to take a cholinergic drug late in the sleep period, to try and pull REM sleep forward.
I never tested it, but it might be worth a try.
Researchers have known for a long time, that remission can be induced, in some of the most severe depressions, simply by altering certain sleep cycles.
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