Research Square
June 9, 2025
Kausar Raheel, Nazanin Biabani, Olga Ivanenko et al.
preprint
Abstract Background: Visual input is thought to influence spatial cognition and language. While blind individuals often rely on egocentric spatial representations, it remains unclear whether and how visual deprivation affects dream-related language. This study applied speech graph analysis (SGA) to investigate linguistic differences in dream reports from congenitally blind (CB), late blind...
Journal of Sleep Research
June 1, 2025
Liborio Parrino, Francesco Rausa, Giulia Balella et al.
4 citations
This article aims at providing a comprehensive review of the historical discovery and following research on rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, highlighting its manifold nature as a behavioural, electrophysiological and dreaming state. Pioneering works conducted by Aserinsky, Kleitman, Dement and Jouvet established the foundational understanding of REM sleep recurrence, brainstem mechanisms, and...
Neurological Sciences
February 2024
Gloria Castelletti, Francesco Misirocchi, Alessandro Zilioli et al.
The COVID-19 outbreak produced extensive psychological consequences, especially among vulnerable populations. Sleep was identified as one of the most common "indirect targets" of the pandemia, with up to 74.8% of patients surviving from COVID-19 complaining of new-onset sleep disorders. However, so far, the clinic-psychological impact of the outbreak in patients affected by pre-existing sleep...
Ideggyogyaszati szemle
May 30, 2022
Anna Szûcs, Carlotta Mutti, Anikó Papp et al.
We review the literature on REM parasomnias, and their the underlying mechanisms. Several REM parasomnias are consistent with sleep dissociations, where certain elements of the REM sleep pattern emerge in an inadequate time (sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations and cataplexy) or are absent/partial in their normal REM sleep time (REM sleep without atonia, underlying REM sleep behavior...