Sleep Medicine
April 1, 2022
Simone Cavallotti, Hans-Christian Stein, Mariantonietta Savarese et al.
Although aggressive dream content is considered a distinctive feature of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) and patients often report violent dreams during medical interviews, nonviolent behaviors (eating, drinking, urinating) and pleasant actions (e.g laughing, singing, dancing) or simply elemental, jerky limb movements are frequently observed during video-polysomnography. As a first-line...
Psychiatry Research
October 30, 2016
Simone Cavallotti, Cecilia Casetta, Valentina Fanti et al.
Although central to any exhaustive theory of human subjectivity, the relationship between dream and waking consciousness remains uncertain. Some findings suggest that dream consciousness can be influenced by severe disorders of thought content. The suppression of unwanted thoughts has been shown to influence dream content in healthy individuals. In order to better define this phenomenon, we...
Psychiatry Research
January 30, 2014
Simone Cavallotti, Anna Castelnovo, Rebecca Ranieri et al.
Cognitive bizarreness has been shown to be equally elevated in the dream and waking mentation of acutely symptomatic inpatients diagnosed with affective and non-affective psychoses. Although some studies have reported on dream content in non-psychotic depression, no study has previously measured this formal aspect of cognition in patients hospitalized for Psychotic Major Depression (PMD)....
Consciousness and Cognition
September 1, 2013
Armando D'Agostino, Giacomo Aletti, Martina Carboni et al.
The relationship between dream content and waking life experiences remains difficult to decipher. However, some neurobiological findings suggest that dreaming can, at least in part, be considered epiphenomenal to ongoing memory consolidation processes in sleep. Both abnormalities in sleep architecture and impairment in memory consolidation mechanisms are thought to be involved in the...
Sleep Medicine
April 13, 2012
Armando D'Agostino, Raffaele Manni, Ivan Limosani et al.
Objectives: Dreams are commonly described as violent, threatening, and aggressive in patients with REM behavior disorder (RBD), but very few studies have directly investigated dream content in this population. We systematically assessed dreams in subjects with a confirmed diagnosis of idiopathic RBD (iRBD) and explored psychological traits within the group with specific focus on aggressiveness....