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  • Title: [Chronobiology of depression].
    Author: Giedke H.
    Journal: Wien Med Wochenschr; 1995; 145(17-18):411-8. PubMed ID: 8588355.
    Abstract:
    Depressive signs and symptoms can change on a daily, monthly and annual scale (diurnal variation of mood, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, seasonal affective disorders). This can be understood as a coupling of psychopathology to pre-existing rhythmic processes (association hypothesis). Also early morning awakening, short REM-sleep-latencies and the antidepressive effects of sleep deprivation and of phase advance therapy bear no evidence of a particular chronopathology in depression. Correspondingly, most studies in depressives have not shown an abnormal phasing of circadian rhythms.
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