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CINP: Gepirone Improves Sleeping and Eating Functionality in Chronically Depressed Patients (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Although the symptoms are deemed atypical, overeating and oversleeping are common disorders among patients with major depression, noted Dr. Frederic Quitkin, of the Depression Evaluation Service of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York, New York. |
 | | Overeating was defined as an enormous increase in appetite and significant weight gain, while oversleeping was defined as two hours or more of excess sleep at least four days a week. |
 | | The eight-week, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study enrolled 212 outpatients with major depressive disorder (MDD); patients presenting with overeating and/or oversleeping were classified as "probable atypical." The researchers randomised 106 patients to gepirone-ER and 106 to placebo. |
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