Somehow my quackery detectors go off on this one, but I'm not quite sure. The article talks about "recent studies" without linking to them. The "references" se

Somehow my quackery detectors go off on this one, but I'm not quite sure. The article talks about "recent studies" without linking to them. The "references" section at the end links to a single peer-reviewed article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447205/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447205/) in a journal with an impact factor of less then one (compare https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0379-5284_Saudi_medical_journal https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0379-5284_Saudi_medical... for example). If it works, why not give some citations in more reputable journals, for example? Most articles, when searching for depression + sleep deprivation, talk about the correlation between the two, which seems to be pretty well-established. There's little on the possible treatment of depression through sleep deprivation. I found a meta-analysis on the subject: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28937707 http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28937707 "The overall response rate to sleep deprivation was 45% among studies that utilized a randomized control group and 50% among studies that did not. The response to sleep deprivation was not affected significantly by the type of sleep deprivation performed, the nature of the clinical sample, medication status, the definition of response used, or age and gender of the sample.These findings support a significant effect of sleep deprivation and suggest the need for future studies [...]" I don't have the qualifications to assess this meta analysis; at least it's published in a more popular/reputable journal.