Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:106-109
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Short REM latency in primary alcoholic patients with secondary depression
JC Gillin, TL Smith, M Irwin, DF Kripke, S Brown and M Schuckit
Department of Psychiatry, San Diego VA Medical Center, CA.
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.
