Nocturnal secretion of prolactin and cortisol and the sleep EEG in patients with major endogenous depression during an acute episode and after full remission

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-88

  Steiger, Axel ^a,b   Holsboer, Florian ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Aging; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical axis; Neuroendocrinology; Polysomnography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SLEEP;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMIPRAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROLACTIN; SLEEP;

EID: 0030770222     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(97)00097-8     Document Type: Article

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