Dreaming away depression: The role of REM sleep and dreaming in affective disorders

Beauchemin, Kathleen M.; Hays, Peter L.

doi:10.1016/s0165-0327(96)00080-8

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“…21 Monoamine oxidase inhibitors may virtually eliminate REM sleep, 19,22,23 a phenomenon that neither necessarily produces a positive clinical response in patients nor causes obvious harm. 19 The following features have been described in dreams of depressive patients: reduced dream recall frequency (DRF), 24,25 reduced length of reports, 26,27 dream contents ranging from "mundane", 26,28 "trivial", 26 to increased "masochistic", 29e32 vivid, disturbing, and sometimes emerging as nightmares. 9 In psychotherapeutic settings, dream content correlated with therapy outcome.…”

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Dreaming under antidepressants: A systematic review on evidence in depressive patients and healthy volunteers

Tribl

Wetter

Schredl

2013

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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Dreaming under antidepressants: A systematic review on evidence in depressive patients and healthy volunteers

Tribl

Wetter

Schredl

2013

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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“…For example, Cartwright and Lloyd (23) found that biologic factors contributing to depression included sleep disorders, specifically overproduction of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. A characteristic of sleep most consistently found in depressed individuals is a reduced REM latency, a decrease in the usual 90-minute non-REM sleep period that precedes the first REM period of the night (24). Risk for depression among relatives with reduced REM latency was almost 3 times greater than for relatives with normal REM latencies (25).…”

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Sleep and Depression in Cancer Caregivers

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Chang²

2000

Cancer Nursing

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A cross-sectional, correlational design was used to describe and explore the relation between caregiver sleep and depression. For the study, 51 caregivers were recruited from two sites in southern California. Caregivers were primarily white (84%), female (80%), spouses (61%), or adult children (29%), who had provided care for a mean of 16 hours per day for an average of 2 years. The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D)and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used to measure caregiver depression and sleep, respectively. Most of the caregivers (95%) expressed severe sleep problems, and more than half of them were experiencing depressive symptoms at a level that would suggest risk for clinical depression. Correlations were strongest between caregiver depression and the sleep subscales of overall quality (r = 0.70; p < 0.001), habitual sleep efficiency (r = 0.54; p < 0.001), and daytime dysfunction (r = 0.59; p < 0.001). The final regression model, which included these subscales, predicted 63.6% of the variance in depression scores (F = 27.32; p < 0.001). These findings, which are consistent with results from other studies, suggest that caregivers of persons with terminal illness are at risk for clinical depression. It is critical for nurses to be cognizant of the relation between sleep problems and depression, and to explore interventions that would allow the caregivers to obtain needed sleep without diminishing their ability to function in their role as caregiver.

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“…Clinically, nightmares are associated with several pathologies (see Levin & Nielsen, 2007 for review) whose relationship to mirror behaviors and the mirror neuron system is under investigation. For example, nightmares are symptomatic of affective disorders, such as bipolar disorder (Beauchemin & Hays, 1996;Mehl et al, 2006) and alexithymia, both of which are linked to anomalies in the mirror neuron system (Kim et al, 2009;Moriguchi et al, 2009). Similarly, nightmares are predictive of suicidal and self-harm behaviors (Li, Lam, Yu, Zhang, & Wing, 2010;Nadorff, Nazem, & Fiske, 2011;Sjostrom, Hetta, & Waern, 2009), which may be linked to mirror processes to the extent that they are influenced by similar behaviors in others, e.g., contagious suicides (Hagihara & Abe, 2012;Jeong et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2012).…”

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