TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zapp, Angela Alexandra
A1  - Fischer, Eva Caroline
A1  - Deuschle, Michael
T1  - The effect of agomelatine and melatonin on sleep-related eating: a case report
JF  - Journal of Medical Case Reports
N2  - Background:
Sleep-related eating may occur in the context of mental illness, sleep disorders, or psychopharmacological treatment. Frequently, sleep-related eating leads to severe weight gain and, so far, there are no treatment options for the condition.
Case presentation:
We report the case of a 54-year-old white woman with depression, panic disorder, and sleep apnea under treatment with various antidepressants who developed severe sleep-related eating. Her sleep-related eating completely vanished after addition of agomelatine, it reoccurred after cessation of agomelatine, and vanished again after her re-exposure to another melatonergic drug, extended melatonin.
Conclusions:
This case suggests that melatonergic drugs lead to relief from sleep-related eating, even when the condition occurs in the context of physical and mental disorders as well as psychopharmacological treatment.
KW  - sleep-related eating
KW  - agomelatine
KW  - melatonin
KW  - weight loss
KW  - parasomn
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-157805
VL  - 11
IS  - 275
ER  -