Dopaminergic system and dream recall: An MRI study in Parkinson's disease patients.
Human Brain Mapping March 1, 2016 Luigi De Gennaro, Olimpia Lanteri, Fabrizio Piras et al.
We investigated the role of the dopamine system [i.e., subcortical-medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) network] in dreaming, by studying patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) as a model of altered dopaminergic transmission. Subcortical volumes and cortical thickness were extracted by 3T-MR images of 27 PD patients and 27 age-matched controls, who were asked to fill out a dream diary upon morning...