When transitioning from waking to non-REM (NREM) sleep, depressed subjects show smaller decreases in relative metabolism in regions of the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortex compared to healthy individuals, according to Nofzinger et al. (2005) using positron emission tomography.

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• NREM sleep concept
• depression concept
• frontal cortex concept