Consciousness and Cognition
December 2011
Marie-Thérèse Saurat, Maité Agbakou, Patricia Attigui et al.
To test if dreams contain remote or never-experienced motor skills, we collected during 6 weeks dream reports from 15 paraplegics and 15 healthy subjects. In 9/10 subjects with spinal cord injury and in 5/5 with congenital paraplegia, voluntary leg movements were reported during dream, including feelings of walking (46%), running (8.6%), dancing (8%), standing up (6.3%), bicycling (6.3%), and...
Chronobiology international
December 1, 2011
Isabelle Arnulf, Agnès Brion, Michel Pottier et al.
Cloistered monks and nuns adhere to a 10-century-old strict schedule with a common zeitgeber of a night split by a 2- to 3-h-long Office (Matins). The authors evaluated how the circadian core body temperature rhythm and sleep adapt in cloistered monks and nuns in two monasteries. Five monks and five nuns following the split-sleep night schedule for 5 to 46 yrs without interruption and 10...
Sleep Medicine
May 2011
Smaranda Leu-Semenescu, Valerie Cochen De Cock, Valerie Dauriac Le Masson et al.
Narcolepsy and Parkinson's disease (PD) are associated with hallucinations, excessive daytime sleepiness, REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), as well as complete (narcolepsy with cataplexy) vs. partial (PD, narcolepsy without cataplexy) hypocretin-1 deficiency. To compare the hallucinations associated with narcolepsy to those of PD. One hundred patients with narcolepsy (with and without...
Brain
June 1, 2010
Laurène Leclair-Visonneau, Delphine Oudiette, Bertrand Gaymard et al.
Rapid eye movements and complex visual dreams are salient features of human rapid eye movement sleep. However, it remains to be elucidated whether the eyes scan dream images, despite studies that have retrospectively compared the direction of rapid eye movements to the dream recall recorded after having awakened the sleeper. We used the model of rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (when...