Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep: An endophenotype for depression

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 480-485

  Modell, Sieglinde ^a   Lauer, Christoph J ^b  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; NORADRENALIN; OREXIN; SEROTONIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELTA RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE RISK; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN CONCORDANCE;

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 37349098376     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-007-0065-z     Document Type: Review

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