This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

B. Timothy Walsh, MD; Raymond Goetz, PhD
Department of Psychiatry College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University 722 W 168th St New York, NY 10032

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1990;47(9):880.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.—

In a recent report in the ARCHIVES Berger et al¹ indicated that there is a contradiction between their findings and an earlier report from our group. In fact, we believe that in all major respects the data by Berger et al are consistent with the conclusions we reached.

As noted by Berger et al, their report on the induction of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep by the cholinergic agonist RS-86 contains data relevant not only to depressive illness, but also to eating disorders. In the last several years it has been suggested that patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia have a predisposition to major depressive illness. In their study, Berger et al found that, compared with controls, 12 patients with eating disorders (6 with anorexia nervosa, 6 with bulimia) did not exhibit the more rapid induction of REM sleep observed in patients with major depressive illness. They . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?