Posted by linkadge on March 30, 2006, at 9:20:41
In reply to melatonin, REM, Parkinson's disease » linkadge, posted by zeugma on March 29, 2006, at 20:06:04
These are really good questions, and it probably should give me the impetous to read a little more on the topic.
I am not sure how melatonin administration affects sleep stages.
Sleep seems to be a very interesting topic to psychiatric disorders.
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).
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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