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Comment author: gwern 01 August 2011 07:15:15PM 2 points [-]

One of the weirder citations I've picked up over the years is "Rapid antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation therapy correlates with serum BDNF changes in major depression". Apparently sleep deprivation is a known treatment for depression?

Comment author: [deleted] 01 August 2011 07:28:47PM 0 points [-]

Nice! I picked up the same idea some years ago from a therapist who used short-term sleep deprivation to get someone too depressed to do anything at all enough into a manic state to begin real therapy. (Sorry, no citation.) I wonder how sustainable this is, though.