An abnormal dexamethasone suppression test (DST) result, a sensitive and specific marker for endogenous depression, was found to be associated with an antidepressant response to sleep deprivation in patients who met DSM-III criteria for Major Depressive Episode regardless of whether they met criteria for melancholia or psychotic subtypes of this disorder. These findings support previous reports of an association between an abnormal DST result and antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation in depressed patients. Our results extend the positive association between an abnormal DST result and the antidepressant response to sleep deprivation to include depressed patients who are clinically nonmelancholic during their current episode but who have an abnormal DST result.

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The wish to be held and hold in couples.

Information pertaining to the wish to be held and to hold was gathered from 56 couples to answer the following questions: 1) What sex difference is there in the preference for being held or holding? 2) Which of the 2 meanings for the wish to be held is usually described? 3) Are men able to separate the wish for body contact as an end in itself from it as prelude to sexual intercourse? 4) Is disparity in body contact desires a cause of marital disharmony?

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Inside interim management.

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