Posted by Cairo on March 30, 2006, at 19:41:10
In reply to Re: melatonin, REM, Parkinson's disease » zeugma, posted by linkadge on March 30, 2006, at 9:20:41
My daughter's neuropsych mentioned that her friend, who is in charge of the Cleveland Clinic's pediatric sleep clinic, told her that only 1 in 3 patients respond to melatonin, but when they respond, they respond well. For what it's worth...
Cairo
> These are really good questions, and it probably should give me the impetous to read a little more on the topic.
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> I am not sure how melatonin administration affects sleep stages.
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> Sleep seems to be a very interesting topic to psychiatric disorders.
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> I remember reading that melatonin administration eliminated the antidepressant effect of fluoxetine in mice (but I don't know exactly how that fits into the picture).
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> Interupting REM sleep seems sufficiant to produce an antidepressant responce in many cases. I think that REM sleep maybe tries to ballence the cholinergic/adrenergic axis.
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