Sleep Medicine Reviews
April 2000
Giora Pillar, Atul Malhotra, Peretz Lavie
According to DSM IV criteria, sleep disturbances are incorporated in the definition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These include the re-experiencing symptoms (nightmares, criteria B) and a hyperarousal state (difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep, criteria D). PTSD patients commonly complain of sleep disturbances. Moreover, insomnia, restless sleep and trauma-related dreams...
Biological Psychiatry
November 15, 1998
Peretz Lavie, N Katz, Giora Pillar et al.
Sleep disturbances are one of the hallmarks of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, sleep laboratory studies have provided inconsistent evidence of the existence of objective sleep disturbances in PTSD patients. Reports that awaking thresholds from sleep in war-related PTSD patients were significantly elevated compared to normals are discordant with complaints of insomnia. The present...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
November 1, 1991
Hanna Kaminer, Peretz Lavie
90 citations
Sleep data were obtained on 12 well-adjusted and 11 less-adjusted Holocaust survivors and on 10 control subjects. Each was also awakened from rapid eye movement sleep for dream recall. The less-adjusted survivors had more prolonged sleep latency than the well-adjusted and the control groups and lower sleep efficiency than the control subjects. The well-adjusted group had a significantly lower...
American Journal of Psychiatry
March 1, 1987
A Hefez, L Metz, Peretz Lavie
217 citations
Sleep data were obtained on 11 patients who had survived traumatic events and who complained of sleep disturbances. Each was awakened from REM and non-REM sleep for dream recall. The patients had lower sleep efficiency indices (because of prolonged sleep latency and larger amounts of "awake" plus "movement" time within sleep periods), shorter REM time, and longer REM latencies than did control...
The American Journal of Psychology
1985
Peretz Lavie, Orna Tzischinsky
5 citations
The present study investigated the relationship between cognitive laterality and dream recall, dream characteristics, and eye movement density in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Fifty-two right-handed males, age 20-30 years, were tested on a six-test battery of which three tests measure right hemisphere function and three tests measure left hemisphere function. Based on their performance, 14...