Sleep
August 12, 2020
Carlo Cipolli, Fabio Pizza, Claudia Bellucci et al.
To assess the frequency of dream experience (DE) developed during naps at Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) by patients with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) and establish, using story-grammar analysis, the structural organization of DEs developed during naps with sleep onset rapid eye movement (REM) period (SOREMP) sleep compared with their DEs during early- and late-night REM sleep. Thirty drug-free...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2020
Carlo Cipolli, Fabio Pizza, Claudia Bellucci et al.
The less rigid architecture of sleep in patients with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) compared with healthy subjects may provide new insights into some unresolved issues of dream experience (DE), under the assumption that their DE frequencies are comparable. The multiple transition from wakefulness to REM sleep (sleep onset REM period: SOREMP) during the five trials of the Multiple Sleep Latency Test...
Sleep Medicine
March 1, 2016
Claudia Bellucci, Stefano Vandi, Martina Iloti et al.
Clinical and polygraphic hallmarks of type 1 narcolepsy (NT1) are the occurrence of episodes of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep at the onset of nocturnal or daytime sleep (SOREMP) and dissociated wake–REM sleep manifestations (cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hallucinations) [1]. Some recent neurophysiological findings, demonstrating that SOREMP in NT1 lacks the typical sympathetic activation of REM...
Brain Research Bulletin
January 15, 2010
Michela Mazzetti, Claudia Bellucci, Katia Mattarozzi et al.
An abundant recall of dreams has been observed in clinical studies on patients with narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC), a neurological disorder characterized by an altered sleep architecture. Laboratory studies have shown that dream experiences developed during 1st-rapid eye movement (REM) sleep by NC patients are longer and more complex than those of healthy subjects. To establish whether these...
Brain Research Bulletin
October 22, 2008
Carlo Cipolli, Claudia Bellucci, Katia Mattarozzi et al.
Narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) is a neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and an altered architecture of sleep. Previous laboratory studies have shown that frightening, bizarre and visually vivid contents are more frequent in dream experiences developed during the first period of REM sleep by NC patients than healthy subjects. As the structural organization of...
Journal of Sleep Research
December 1, 2004
Carlo Cipolli, Igino Fagioli, Michela Mazzetti et al.
Presleep stimuli to be retained for further recall is often incorporated into dream contents. To establish whether processing for insertion into dream contents may improve consolidation, we compared the retention rate at delayed recall of contents resulting from incorporation of presleep sentence-stimuli with those of other contents of the same dream experiences. We hypothesized that...
Journal of Sleep Research
December 1, 2001
Carlo Cipolli, R Bolzani, Giovanni Tuozzi et al.
The ability to process recently acquired knowledge is clearly maintained during sleep. Here we assess whether and how far the sleeper controls this processing (in a non-volitional and non-conscious manner). We posit that during sleep, the cognitive concerns of previous waking may guide access to, and processing of, items of declarative knowledge with which those concerns are associated. In a...
Journal of Sleep Research
March 1, 1998
Carlo Cipolli, R Bolzani, Giovanni Tuozzi
Four dream reports, collected from each of 16 subjects in an experimental night, were analysed using the criteria of Mandler and Johnson's story grammar. The experimental night was the first of the four nights where subjects had spontaneously given a dream report after each of the four awakenings planned in REM sleep. A multivariate analysis of covariance, taking the order of the nights where...