Schizophrenia Bulletin
July 2014
Renaud Jardri, Agna A. Bartels‐Velthuis, Martin Debbané et al.
Typically reported as vivid, multisensory experiences which may spontaneously resolve, hallucinations are present at high rates during childhood. The risk of associated psychopathology is a major cause of concern. On the one hand, the risk of developing further delusional ideation has been shown to be reduced by better theory of mind skills. On the other hand, ideas of reference, passivity...
Sleep Medicine
November 2013
Giuseppe Plazzi
Sleep, sleepiness, and dreaming are expressed throughout Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) the Divine Comedy from the start of his journey through the afterlife. In the book, Dante complains that he is "full of sleep," and he experiences sudden wake-dreaming transitions, short and refreshing naps, visions and hallucinations, unconscious behaviors, episodes of muscle weakness, and falls which are...
Sleep Medicine
August 2013
Yves Dauvilliers, Poul Jennum, Giuseppe Plazzi
Narcolepsy is a rare disabling hypersomnia disorder that may include cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep-onset rapid eye movement (REM) periods, but also disrupted nighttime sleep by nocturnal awakenings, and REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). RBD is characterized by dream-enacting behavior and impaired motor inhibition during REM sleep (REM sleep without atonia,...
Sleep Medicine
April 1, 2010
Fabio Pizza, K. K. Moghadam, Christian Franceschini et al.
This section is a new feature of Sleep Medicine allowing readers to submit unique sleep related cases with video segments as a way to enhance educational value in a manner unattainable through paper format. Please see our web site’s (http://ees.elsevier.com/ sleep/) Guide for Authors for instructions. We hope this section will be enriched by the contributions of our colleagues who wish to offer...
Brain Research Bulletin
January 15, 2010
Michela Mazzetti, Claudia Bellucci, Katia Mattarozzi et al.
An abundant recall of dreams has been observed in clinical studies on patients with narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC), a neurological disorder characterized by an altered sleep architecture. Laboratory studies have shown that dream experiences developed during 1st-rapid eye movement (REM) sleep by NC patients are longer and more complex than those of healthy subjects. To establish whether these...
Brain Research Bulletin
October 22, 2008
Carlo Cipolli, Claudia Bellucci, Katia Mattarozzi et al.
Narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) is a neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and an altered architecture of sleep. Previous laboratory studies have shown that frightening, bizarre and visually vivid contents are more frequent in dream experiences developed during the first period of REM sleep by NC patients than healthy subjects. As the structural organization of...