EEG-monitored sleep in anorexia nervosa and bulimia

We compared the EEG-monitored sleep of 8 women with anorexia nervosa and 16 normal weight women with bulimia to that of 14 normal women. The patients with anorexia nervosa spent less time asleep and spent less of their sleep time in Stage 1. The sleep of the normal weight patients with bulimia was remarkably similar to that of the controls. These data suggest that most patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia do not exhibit the type of sleep disturbances characteristic of patients with major depressive illness.

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