Depressed mood and reality disturbance correlate with decreased nocturnal melatonin in depressed patients. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The authors measured serum samples of melatonin at 11:00 p.m. in 28 patients suffering from major depression. Melatonin secretion was inversely correlated with the depressed mood and reality disturbance factors of the Hamilton Depression Scale. These results are consistent with previous reports of low melatonin syndrome in a subgroup of depressed patients.

publication date

  • September 1, 1987

Research

keywords

  • Depressive Disorder
  • Melatonin

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023407190

PubMed ID

  • 3673654

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 76

issue

  • 3