We appreciate the opportunity to reply to the arguments raised by Dr. Carroll about
the conclusions of our study published in Biological Psychiatry (
1
). We demonstrated in this study that elevated rapid eye movement (REM) density can
be observed not only in patients with depression but also in high-risk probands, that
is, in healthy first-degree relatives of depressed patients, who developed a psychiatric
disorder during follow-up. These high-risk probands had higher REM density scores
than matched control subjects without a personal or family history of psychiatric
disorders; affected high-risk probands, however, did not differ from other high-risk
probands who did not develop a psychiatric disorder during follow-up.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: May 29, 2007
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