Nightmares in the general population: identifying potential causal factors
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology July 15, 2017 Stephanie Rek, Bryony Sheaves, Daniel K. Freeman 54 citations
Nightmares are inherently distressing, prevent restorative sleep, and are associated with a number of psychiatric problems, but have rarely been the subject of empirical study. Negative affect, linked to stressful events, is generally considered the key trigger of nightmares; hence nightmares have most often been considered in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, many...