“…Compete with RORA for binding to the BMAL-1 promoter and repress the BMAL-1 MDD (Soria et al, 2010;Byrne et al, 2014) BD (Kishi et al, 2008;Kripke et al, 2009;Severino et al, 2009) Rora Retinoid-related orphan receptor a (RORA) Works as nuclear hormone receptors. Compete with NR1D1 for binding to the BMAL-1 promoter and activate the BMAL-1 MDD Utge et al, 2010;Maglione et al, 2015) BD Lai et al, 2015;Geoffroy et al, 2016 (Kupfer and Foster, 1972;Kupfer, 1976;Rush et al, 1986;Giles et al, 1987;Pillai, Kalmbach and Ciesla, 2011) BD Euthymia; Increased REM density and proportion of REM sleep, longer sleep onset latency and sleep duration, lower sleep efficiency (Sitaram et al, 1982;Millar, Espie and Scott, 2004;Rocha, Neves and Corrêa, 2013;Geoffroy et al, 2015) Mania; Shortened REM sleep latency, increased REM activity and REM density, reduced total sleep time (Hudson et al, 1988(Hudson et al, , 1992Linkowski and Mendlewicz, 1993) Depression; More fragmented REM sleep periods, shortened REM sleep latency (Gillin et al, 1979;Lauer, Wiegand and Krieg, 1992) longer sleep onset latency, increased proportion of REM sleep, trend toward higher percentage of awakenings in bipolar depression than in unipolar depression (Giles, Rush and Roffwarg, 1986;Jernajczyk, 1986;Fossion et al, 1998)…”