For quite some time health experts across the world has been emphasizing on the importance of sleep to reduce symptoms of depression. A latest U.S based study points out a rather strange phenomenon which links sleep deprivation to have certain antidepressant effects. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, went back to the ideas postulated by a famous German psychiatrist named Johann Christian August Heinroth who successfully experimented with sleep deprivation as a treatment for, what he called at the time "melancholia", some 200 years back.
The phenomena has become a major area of study in the recent decades. A process called Wake Therapy was developed to quickly alleviate major depressive symptoms, the therapy also showed many effects exhibited by anti-depressant drugs. However, despite being discovered 30 years ago, the team still admits of not having an effective grasp on precisely how effective the treatment is and how to achieve the best clinical results.
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