Journal of Sleep Research
October 1, 2025
Maïlis Charpentier-Hélary, Aurélien De la Chapelle, Maxime Linard et al.
Epilepsy impacts cognition during wakefulness. As epileptic activity is present and even augmented during sleep, epilepsy could also influence sleep-related cognitive processes. However, whether epilepsy modulates sleep-related experiences like dreaming remains poorly known. Here, we prospectively investigated the characteristics and determinants of dreaming in patients with epilepsy....
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2021
Aurélien De la Chapelle, Birgit Frauscher, Amandine Valomon et al.
The interactions between epilepsy and sleep are numerous and the impact of epilepsy on cognition is well documented. Epilepsy is therefore likely to influence dreaming as one sleep-related cognitive activity. The frequency of dream recall is indeed decreased in patients with epilepsy, especially in those with primary generalized seizures. The content of dreams is also disturbed in epilepsy...
Sleep Medicine
January 16, 2015
Katja Valli, Birgit Frauscher, Taina Peltomaa et al.
Objective: Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) has been related to altered, action-filled, vivid, and aggressive dream content, but research comparing the possible differences in dreams of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with and without RBD is scarce. The dream content of PD patients with and without RBD was analyzed with specific focus on action-filledness, vividness,...
Journal of Sleep Research
August 4, 2011
Katja Valli, Birgit Frauscher, Viola Gschliesser et al.
58 citations
Motor activity in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) has been linked to dream content. Systematic and controlled sleep laboratory studies directly assessing the relation between RBD behaviours and experienced dream content are, however, largely lacking. We aimed to investigate whether a link can be established between RBD behaviours and dream content when both are...