The Relationship between Weight Change and Sleep A Study of Psychiatric Outpatients1 A. H. Crisp and E. Stonehill Central Middlesex Hospital, London and St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London
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This paper describes a small part of a research project which began about 7 years ago with the observation that patients with anorexia nervosa report a disturbance of their normal sleep pattern [Crisp, 1967]. This observation was subsequently confirmed in a systematic study of these patients in which early morning waking, as measured by patients’ selfreports, nocturnal motility and all-night EEG recordings, was found to be closely related to weight change independent of mood [Crisp and Stonehill, 1971, Crisp et al., 1971]. Interrupted sleep was also a feature but not sleep disturbance at the beginning of the night. In a further study, obese subjects losing weight were found to sleep less, especially in the second half of the night, although this finding was less consistent [Crisp and Stonehill, 1970; Crisp et al., 1972]. A further study [Stonehill, 1972; Crisp and Stonehill, 1972; Stonehill and Crisp, 1972], part of which is described here, was designed to test a hypothesis that a relationship exists between changes in nutri-
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