End-of-Life in Oncologic Patients' Dream Content.
Brain Sciences August 1, 2020 Alessandro Cicolin, Michele Boffano, Guglielmo Beccuti et al.
Both non-rapid eye movements and rapid eye movements sleep facilitate the strengthening of newly encoded memory traces, and dream content reflects this process. Numerous studies evaluated the impact of diseases on dream content, with particular reference to cancer, and reported the presence of issues related to death, negative emotions, pain and illness. This study investigates death and...
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10080505 (opens in new tab)
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Dream content
Sleep
Oncology
End of life
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