JMIR Mental HealthNovember 21, 2024Francesca Malandrone, Sara Urru, Paola Berchialla et al.8 citations
Patients with cancer often face depression and anxiety, and mindfulness-based interventions, including internet-based versions, can effectively reduce these symptoms and improve their quality of life. This study aims to investigate the impact of internet-based mindfulness-based interventions (e-MBIs) on anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms in patients with prostate or breast cancer. The...
Dreams may be recalled after awakening from sleep following a defined electroencephalographic pattern that involves local decreases in low-frequency activity in the posterior cortical regions. Although a dreaming experience implies bodily changes at many organ, system, and timescale levels, the entity and causal role of such peripheral changes in a conscious dream experience are unknown. We...
This study reports on a multivariate complexity assessment for cardiovascular dynamics during REM sleep leading to a dream recall. Heart rate variability, as well as systolic and diastolic time interval variability series were gathered from eight volunteers during night sleep, and were considered input of a trivariate Multichannel Complexity Index (MCI) analysis. MCI is a recently proposed...
Uncovering the physiological correlates of dreams is one of the most ambitious aim of multidisciplinary neuroscientific research. Here we investigated Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) dynamics associated with a dream recall, with a particular focus on the complexity assessment on cardiovascular control. We recorded electrocardiogram and arterial blood pressure signals from eight healthy subjects...