AIMS Public Health
December 18, 2023
A. Pachi, Athanasios Tselebis, Christos Sikaras et al.
Introduction The pandemic has led to notable psychological challenges among healthcare professionals, including nurses. Objective Our aims of this study were to assess insomnia and nightmare distress levels in nurses and investigate their association with mental resilience. Methods Nurses participated in an online survey, which included the Nightmare Distress Questionnaire (NDQ), Brief...
Clocks & Sleep
January 29, 2022
Alexandros S Triantafyllou, Ioannis Ilias, Nicholas-Tiberio Economou et al.
The effect of cortisol on dreams has been scarcely studied. The aim of this exploratory study was to assess the possible effect of cortisol levels on dream recall/affect, considering, in female subjects, their menstrual cycle phase. Fifteen men and fifteen women were recruited. Saliva samples were used for the detection of cortisol levels. Participants were instructed to provide four saliva...
Clocks & Sleep
July 22, 2021
Athanasios Tselebis, Emmanouil Zoumakis, Ioannis Ilias
In this concise review, we present an overview of research on dream recall/affect and of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, discussing caveats regarding the action of hormones of the HPA axis (mainly cortisol and its free form, cortisol-binding globulin and glucocorticoid receptors). We present results of studies regarding dream recall/affect and the HPA axis under physiological...
Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
July 21, 2019
Ioannis Ilias, Nicholas-Tiberio Economou, Anastasia Lekkou et al.
The association between sleep and the menstrual cycle has been scarcely studied. This study aimed to investigate the association between dream recall and content and the menstrual cycle among a large sample of young women. To this aim, 944 women were asked about their day of menstrual cycle, whether they remembered the previous night's dreams and if they did so to describe the dream content as...