Altered parasympathetic activity during sleep and emotionally arousing wakefulness in frequent nightmare recallers
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience March 2, 2023 Vivien Tomacsek, Borbála Blaskovich, Anna Király et al. 8 citations
Nightmare disorder is characterized by dysfunctional emotion regulation and poor subjective sleep quality reflected in pathophysiological features such as abnormal arousal processes and sympathetic influences. Dysfunctional parasympathetic regulation, especially before and during rapid eye movement (REM) phases, is assumed to alter heart rate (HR) and its variability (HRV) of frequent nightmare...