Yes, Your Sleep Schedule is Making You Sick（6）对抗抑郁症，也许你只需调整睡眠时间（6）

In one study of 60 hospitalized patients with bipolar depression who were taking antidepressants or lithium(n.锂), 70 percent of those who did not have a history of drug resistance improved rapidly with sleep deprivation and early morning light, and 57 percent remained well after nine months. Encouragingly, 44 percent of patients who had failed to respond to at least one trial of anti-depressants also improved.

在一项对60名正在服用抗抑郁药或锂的住院躁郁症患者的研究中，70%没有耐药史的患者通过睡眠剥夺和清晨阳光疗法快速取得改善，57%的患者在9个月后依然状态良好。令人鼓舞的是，至少对一种抗抑郁药物没有反应的患者中，44%的人也有所改善。

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*resistance /rɪ’zɪstəns/ n.抵抗；抵触；反对

*rapidly /‘ræpɪdli/ adv.迅速地；很快地

deprivation /ˌdeprɪ’veɪʃn/ n.剥夺；免职；丧失

（这个词不重要，但是它的动词形式非常重要：deprive /dɪ'praɪv/ v. 剥夺, 夺去 常考搭配deprive sb. of sth.）

*respond to 响应；对 ... 起反应

*trial /‘traɪəl/ n.审讯；试验；试用；尝试

In another study, investigators combined chronotherapy（时间疗法） with psychotropic medication and found that depressed patients got better within 48 hours — much faster than antidepressants, which typically take four to six weeks to work. A second study of 75 depressed patients who were taking an antidepressant randomly assigned half to also receive chronotherapy and the other half to daily physical exercise. It found that 62 percent of patients remained well at the end of 29 weeks in the chronotherapy group compared with only 38 percent assigned to exercise.

在另一项研究中，研究者联合使用时间疗法与精神药物，发现抑郁症患者在48小时内得到改善——比抗抑郁药要快得多，后者通常需要4至6周才能起效。在另一项研究中，75名正在服用抗抑郁药的抑郁症患者被随机分成两半，其中一半也接受时间疗法，另一半进行日常体育锻炼。结果发现，29周后，时间疗法组62%的患者依然状态良好，而分配到运动组的患者中，只有38%的人状态良好。

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psychotropic /ˌsaɪkə’trəʊpɪk/ adj.治疗精神病的

*randomly /‘rændəmli/ adv.任意地；随便地；胡乱地

*assign /ə’saɪn/ v.分配；指定；指派

*compare with 与 ... 相比

With the possible exception of ketamine, a drug under investigation for treating depression, this therapy is the most rapid antidepressant treatment that we have. About 60 percent of depressed patients feel markedly better within hours. And — with the exception of some fatigue — there are no side effects.

可能除了氯胺酮（一种正在研究的用于治疗抑郁症的药物）之外，这种疗法是我们目前拥有的能最快缓解抑郁症的疗法。约60%的抑郁症患者在数小时内明显感觉改善。除了有点疲劳，没有其他副作用。

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*investigation /ɪnˌvestɪ’ɡeɪʃn/ n.调查

*markedly /‘mɑːkɪdli/ adv.显著地；明显地

*fatigue /fə’tiːɡ/ n.疲劳；疲乏

*side effect 副作用