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Abstract
To evaluate the sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) characteristics of bulimia, all-night
sleep EEGs were performed on 11 women meeting DSM-III criteria for bulimia. Comparison
groups consisted of young women outpatients with major depression (n = 44) and young normal women (n = 20). The sleep EEGs of the bulimic patients were largely indistinguishable from those of
the normal controls, except for a trend toward increased rapid eye movement (REM)
density in the first REM period among the bulimic subjects. No differences in any
sleep EEG measure were observed between bulimic patients with major depression and
those without affective disorder. By contrast, the outpatients with major depression
displayed marked sleep continuity disturbances, as well as significantly increased
REM intensity and REM density, as compared to normal controls. Implications of these
results with respect to the hypothesis that bulimia is related to major affective
disorder are discussed.
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Publication history
Received in revised form:
November 13,
1986
Received:
September 5,
1986
Footnotes
☆Supported in part by a Medical Foundation Research Fellowship (J.I.H.), a grant from the Communities Foundation of Texas, a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Research Network on the Psychobiology of Depression, Mental Health Clinical Research Center Grant MH36224, and NIMH Grants MH29618 and MH24652.
☆☆Presented in part at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 12, 1986.
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