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Mizziara Marlen Matias de Paiva

2 papers in the library · 78 citations · publishing 2020

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Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion

PLoS One November 30, 2020 Natália Bezerra Mota, Janaína Weissheimer, Marina Ribeiro et al. 71 citations

The current global threat brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread social isolation, posing new challenges in dealing with metal suffering related to social distancing, and in quickly learning new social habits intended to prevent contagion. Neuroscience and psychology agree that dreaming helps people to cope with negative emotions and to learn from experience, but can dreaming...

Dreaming during Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dreams reveals mental suffering and fear of contagion

medRxiv May 21, 2020 Natália Bezerra Mota, Janaína Weissheimer, Marina Ribeiro et al. 7 citations preprint

Neuroscience and psychology agree that dreaming helps to cope with negative emotions and learn from experience. The current global threat related to the COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread social isolation. Does dreaming change and/or reflect mental suffering? To address these questions, we applied natural language processing tools to study 239 dream reports from 67 individuals either before...