medRxiv
February 19, 2022
S. Schwartz, Alice Clerget, Lampros Perogamvros
preprint
Background: Nightmare disorder (ND) is characterized by dreams with strong negative emotions occurring during rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep. ND is mainly treated by imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT), where the patients are asked to change the negative story line of their nightmare to a more positive one. Methods: We used targeted memory reactivation (TMR) during REM sleep to strengthen...
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October 24, 2018
S. Schwartz
3 citations
"Most discussions of religion center on dogmas and beliefs, either of a particular religion or a comparison across denomina- tions. I would like to look at religion from the perspective of a consciousness experimentalist, setting aside the dogmas and beliefs. When I look at religion, any religion, as an experimentalist, what I see is a cohort of people consensually holding a world- view. The...
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April 30, 2018
S. Schwartz
S omething very profound is happening in science, something not seen in more than a century is occurring: the paradigm of science is changing. Consciousness, particularly nonlocal non-physiological consciousness, is becoming mainstream. The world view of materialism is increasingly inconsistent with the reported experimental data in a spectrum of disciplines, as any search of PubMed,...
December 7, 2005
S. Schwartz, Thanh Dang-Vu, A. Ponz et al.
Sleep and dream research has recently been invigorated by convergent data from complementary neuropsychological sources such as brain-imaging studies of normal sleep, clinical investigations of dream disorders in brain-damaged patients and analyses of dream reports from healthy individuals. Here we show that by adopting a neuropsychological approach to dream phenomenology we can gain important...
2004
S. Schwartz
Multidimensional statistical procedures were used to analyze three corpuses of dream reports on the basis of their word content, automatically and without any a priori coding of their meaning. The analyses revealed that the same clusters of dream reports were found consistently in all three datasets. Each cluster of dream content was characterized by a specific predominant cognitive category...