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EEG sleep measures in 35 depressed and 33 normal control adolescents were examined
in relation to stressful life events occurring in the year before sleep studies. There
was a significant interaction between stressful life events and diagnostic status
for REM latency and total REM time. In the normal controls, the presence of stressful
life events was significantly associated with reduced REM latency and increased total
REM time. Among the depressed adolescents, there were no significant effects of stressful
life events on REM latency or total REM time. The depressed adolescents with no stressful
life events (n = 9) had significantly lower REM latency values compared to normal
control adolescents with no stressful life events (n = 13) (61.7 ± 50.0 vs. 132.1
± 79.0, p ≤ .01). It appears that stressful life events influence at least some measures of
adolescent sleep and should be considered in future controlled studies aimed at understanding
sleep changes in adolescent depression.
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Received in revised form:
August 17,
1994
Received:
May 16,
1994
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These data were presented in part at the 40th Annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry held in San Antonio, TX 1993.
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