By chance, we were able to record for five consecutive nights the sleep of a 61-year-old woman before each of two successive depressive episodes. In this patient, marked changes in EEG sleep (notably a decline in "sleep efficiency") preceded both episodes. These changes are considered to be of predictive, but not of etiological, significance.
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Cairns et al. (1980) studied this question.
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