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Emanuela Saita

2 papers in the library · 23 citations · publishing 2021

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Dreams and Nightmares during the First and Second Wave of the COVID-19 Infection: A Longitudinal Study.

Brain Sciences October 20, 2021 Serena Scarpelli, Valentina Alfonsi, Maurizio Gorgoni et al. 23 citations

Recent literature shows that the Coronovirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has provoked significant changes in dreaming. The current study intends to provide an update about dream variable changes during the second wave of COVID-19. A total of 611 participants completed a web survey from December 2020 to January 2021. Statistical comparisons showed that subjects had lower dream-recall frequency,...

Pandemic nightmares: Effects on dream activity of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy.

Journal of Sleep Research October 1, 2021 Serena Scarpelli, Valentina Alfonsi, Anastasia Mangiaruga et al.

COVID-19 has critically impacted the world. Recent works have found substantial changes in sleep and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dreams could give us crucial information about people's well-being, so here we have directly investigated the consequences of lockdown on the oneiric activity in a large Italian sample: 5,988 adults completed a web-survey during lockdown. We...