Virginie Czernecki

Can we still dream when the mind is blank? Sleep and dream mentations in auto-activation deficit.

Brain September 11, 2013 Smaranda Leu-Semenescu, Ginevra Uguccioni, Jean‐louis Golmard et al.

Bilateral damage to the basal ganglia causes auto-activation deficit, a neuropsychological syndrome characterized by striking apathy, with a loss of self-driven behaviour that is partially reversible with external stimulation. Some patients with auto-activation deficit also experience a mental emptiness, which is defined as an absence of any self-reported thoughts. We asked whether this deficit...