BACKGROUND Functional neurological disorder (FND) is often associated with trauma and dissociation. There is insufficient data on sleep disturbances and nightmare frequency. METHODS Patients with FND (n = 87) were compared with psychosomatic patients (PSM; mainly with affective and somatoform disorders; n = 97) and post-stroke patients (STR; n = 92). Questions focused on subjective sleep...
In clinical praxis, the question whether it is possible – based on a dream report – to make any inferences about the characteristics of the dreamer often arises. For the present study, gender was selected for the matching task. Two judges were able to match the dreamer’s gender based on a single dream report better than chance. The rate of correct decisions (about 64%), however, was not very...
The present study investigated the dream recall frequency and the pattern of influencing factors of patients with restless legs syndrome in comparison with healthy controls. The patients’ dream recall frequency did not differ from that of healthy controls. Dream recall, however, was negatively associated with the number of periodic leg movements with arousal (PLMAI). Subjective estimates of...