Abstract
The Effect of Sleep in Serotonin Level for Different Duration Periods of Depression Disorders
Author(s): Allaa Hatim Thanoon, Mohammed Abed Jawad*, Mohammed Haider Hamad, Mohammed Shakir Atiyah, Saif Yaseen Hasan, Ahlam Kadhim Hussein, Doaa A Hamad, Falah Hassan Ali and Ghadeer Sabah BustaniThe current study deal with effect of sleep in serotonin level in a different duration period of depressed patients, blood sample collected from depression patients then serotonin detected, the results show non-significant serotonin level (P=0.566) and sleep show a significant decrement in patients than control (p=0.000), significant differences among sleep categories distribution (p=0.0012), The mean differences in serotonin level according to sleep categories show non -significant differences within the depression patient groups (p=0.110) and control groups (p=0.439), there was non-significant differences among duration categories for serotonin level (P=0.217) and sleep (P=0.335) , there wasn't relation of serotonin level with sleep in different disease duration. Also serotonin decreased during the period (5-10 years) while increasing after (10 years) of disease. Present study concluded that serotonin affected by sleep in depression and didn’t effect by duration of disease, sleep decrease with duration increment.