Sleep
April 20, 2024
Michael Spano, Edward F Pace-Schott
Abstract Introduction Sleep Paralysis (SP) is a sleep-disturbing experience of muscle atonia while conscious, creating an in-between sensation of wakefulness and dissociation during REM sleep. During SP, one can experience hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations, which may cause feelings of terror and fear. These feelings affect the overall well-being of the experiencers and may impact other...
SLEEP Advances
2024
Christopher M. McGrory, Augustus Kram Mendelsohn, Suzanne L. Pineles et al.
2 citations
Study Objectives: Trauma-related nightmares (TRNs) are a hallmark symptom of PTSD and are highly correlated with PTSD severity and poor sleep quality. Given the salience and arousal associated with TRNs, they might be an effective target for imaginal exposures during Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. As a first step in this line of research, the current study compared participants' emotional...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 14, 2011
Edward F Pace-Schott
3 citations
Among sleep stages, awakenings from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep produce the greatest number and reported intensity of dream reports. Dreaming is a conscious state that lacks the insight and cognitive control typical of healthy waking but allows the remarkable emergence of coherent narrative, vivid visual imagery, strong emotion, and sometimes never-before-experienced elements. Similar to...
Consciousness and Cognition
June 1, 2011
Michelle Neider, Edward F Pace-Schott, Erica Forselius et al.
Activity in the prefrontal cortex may distinguish the meta-awareness experienced during lucid dreams from its absence in normal dreams. To examine a possible relationship between dream lucidity and prefrontal task performance, we carried out a prospective study in 28 high school students. Participants performed the Wisconsin Card Sort and Iowa Gambling tasks, then for 1 week kept dream journals...
PLoS One
2011
Mark Blagrove, Nathalie C Fouquet, Josephine A Henley-Einion et al.
This study investigates evidence, from dream reports, for memory consolidation during sleep. It is well-known that events and memories from waking life can be incorporated into dreams. These incorporations can be a literal replication of what occurred in waking life, or, more often, they can be partial or indirect. Two types of temporal relationship have been found to characterize the time of...
International review of neurobiology
2010
Mark Blagrove, Edward F Pace-Schott
Individuals differ greatly in their dream recall frequency, in their incidence of recalling types of dreams, such as nightmares, and in the content of their dreams. This chapter reviews work on the waking life correlates of these differences between people in their experience of dreaming and reviews some of the neurobiological correlates of these individual differences. The chapter concludes...
Birkhäuser Basel eBooks
March 3, 2008
Edward F Pace-Schott
7 citations
Many clinical anecdotes and an experimental study have reported intensification of dreaming by the selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). However, no published neurochemical dream model invokes serotonin as a dream-promoting neuromodulator or accounts for serotonergic dream enhancement. An experimental study of normal volunteers showed that, although SSRI treatment decreased dream...
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
September 2002
J Allan Hobson, Edward F Pace-Schott
Sleep can be addressed across the entire hierarchy of biological organization. We discuss neuronal-network and regional forebrain activity during sleep, and its consequences for consciousness and cognition. Complex interactions in thalamocortical circuits maintain the electroencephalographic oscillations of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Functional neuroimaging affords views of the human...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2002
David Kahn, Edward F Pace-Schott, J Allan Hobson
This study investigated the relationship between dream emotion and dream character identification. Thirty-five subjects provided 320 dream reports and answers to questions on characters that appeared in their dreams. We found that emotions are almost always evoked by our dream characters and that they are often used as a basis for identifying them. We found that affection and joy were commonly...
Journal of Sleep Research
June 1, 2001
Edward F Pace-Schott, T Gersh, R Silvestri et al.
Clinical lore and a small number of published studies report that the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) intensify dreaming. This study examines the dream effects of paroxetine and fluvoxamine in order to both increase clinical knowledge of these agents and to test an important potential method for probing the relationship between REM sleep neurobiology and dreaming in humans....
Cambridge University Press eBooks
2001
J. Allan Hobson, Edward F Pace-Schott, Robert Stickgold
56 citations
: Sleep researchers in different disciplines disagree about how fully dreaming can be explained in terms of brain physiology. Debate has focused on whether REM sleep dreaming is qualitatively different from nonREM (NREM) sleep and waking. A review of psychophysiological studies shows clear quantitative differences between REM and NREM mentation and between REM and waking mentation. Recent...
Neuroscience
May 1997
D Kahn, Edward F Pace-Schott, J A Hobson
State-dependent aspects of consciousness are explored with particular attention to waking and dreaming. First, those phenomenological differences between waking and dreaming that have been established through subjective reports are reviewed. These differences are robustly expressed in most aspects of consciousness including perception, attention, memory, emotion, orientation, and thought. Next,...