Erkki Vartiainen

Nightmares as predictors of suicide: an extension study including war veterans.

Scientific Reports March 15, 2017 Nils Sandman, Katja Valli, Erkki Kronholm et al.

Nightmares are intensive dreams with negative emotional tone. Frequent nightmares can pose a serious clinical problem and in 2001, Tanskanen et al. found that nightmares increase the risk of suicide. However, the dataset used by these authors included war veterans in whom nightmare frequency - and possibly also suicide risk - is elevated. Therefore, re-examination of the association between...