Hypersomnia and depressive symptoms: methodological and clinical aspects

The associations between depressive symptoms and hypersomnia are complex and often bidirectional. Of the many disorders associated with excessive sleepiness in the general population, the most frequent are mental health disorders, particularly depression. However, most mood disorder studies addressi...

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Published in:BMC medicine Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 78
Main Authors: Dauvilliers, Yves, Lopez, Régis, Ohayon, Maurice, Bayard, Sophie
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London BioMed Central 21.03.2013
BioMed Central Ltd
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Analysis
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
Biomedicine
Depression - complications
Depression - diagnosis
Depression - physiopathology
Depression - therapy
Depression, Mental
Diagnosis
Disorders of Excessive Somnolence - complications
Disorders of Excessive Somnolence - diagnosis
Disorders of Excessive Somnolence - physiopathology
Disorders of Excessive Somnolence - therapy
Genomics
Humans
Hypersomnia
Insomnia
Life Sciences
Medical research
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Medicine, Experimental
Mental disorders
Mental health
Narcolepsy
Older people
Review
Sleep disorders
Studies
United States > US
Depression
Excessive daytime sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Narcolepsy
Mood
Sleep
ISSN:1741-7015, 1741-7015
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Summary:The associations between depressive symptoms and hypersomnia are complex and often bidirectional. Of the many disorders associated with excessive sleepiness in the general population, the most frequent are mental health disorders, particularly depression. However, most mood disorder studies addressing hypersomnia have assessed daytime sleepiness using a single response, neglecting critical and clinically relevant information about symptom severity, duration and nighttime sleep quality. Only a few studies have used objective tools such as polysomnography to directly measure both daytime and nighttime sleep propensity in depression with normal mean sleep latency and sleep duration. Hypersomnia in mood disorders, rather than a medical condition per se , is more a subjective sleep complaint than an objective finding. Mood symptoms have also been frequently reported in hypersomnia disorders of central origin, especially in narcolepsy. Hypocretin deficiency could be a contributing factor in this condition. Further interventional studies are needed to explore whether management of sleep complaints improves mood symptoms in hypersomnia disorders and, conversely, whether management of mood complaints improves sleep symptoms in mood disorders.
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ISSN:1741-7015
1741-7015
DOI:10.1186/1741-7015-11-78