Nightmare Severity Is Inversely Related to Frontal Brain Activity During Waking State Picture Viewing.
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine February 15, 2019 Louis-Philippe Marquis, Sarah-Hélène Julien, Andrée-Ann Baril et al.
Study objectives: Growing evidence suggests that nightmares have considerable adverse effects on waking behavior, possibly by increasing post-sleep negative emotions. Dysphoric reactions to nightmares are one component of nightmare severity for which the neural correlates are unknown. Here, we investigate possible neural correlates of nightmare severity in a sample of individuals who frequently...
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.7628 (opens in new tab)
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Gyrus cinguli
Prefrontal cortex
Humans
Emotions
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