RT Journal
A1 Breslau N, Roth T, Burduvali E, Kapke A, Schultz L, Roehrs T
T1 DIstinguishing current from remitted posttraumatic stress disorder—reply
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2006
FD August 1
VO 63
IS 8
SP 941
OP 942
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.63.8.941
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.63.8.941
AB 
In our article entitled “Sleep in Lifetime Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Community-Based Polysomnographic Study,”1 we report polysomnographic findings from a large study nested in a well-described, longitudinal epidemiologic sample. The PTSD subset comprises lifetime cases, both current and past, combined based on the absence of any evidence suggesting group differences. We found no evidence for clinically relevant sleep disturbances in lifetime PTSD but higher rates of arousal from REM, a finding of uncertain clinical relevance. Clearly, our findings do not lead us to deny the possibility that some PTSD cases have sleep disturbances and could benefit from treatment.