Dream content analysis in persons with an autism spectrum disorder.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders April 1, 2008 Anne-Marie Daoust, Félix-Antoine Lusignan, Claude M J Braun et al.
Dream questionnaires were completed by 28 young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) participants. Seventy-nine typically developed individual served as the control group. In a subset of 17 persons with ASD and 11 controls matched for verbal IQ, dream narratives were obtained following REM sleep awakenings in a sleep laboratory. Questionnaires revealed that participants with ASD, compared...