10.22.2007 - Sleep loss linked to psychiatric disorders

10.22.2007 - Sleep loss linked to psychiatric disorders: "This is the first set of experiments that demonstrate that even healthy people's brains mimic certain pathological psychiatric patterns when deprived of sleep, "Walker said."Before, it was difficult to separate out the effect of sleep versus the disease itself. Now we're closer to being able to look into whether the person has a psychiatric disease or a sleep disorder."