Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
July 17, 2026
Paulo Bugalho
Contrary to common believe, some studies have reported the existence of observer dreams, in which the dreamer does not intervene. Parkinson's disease (PD) patients frequently report alterations in dream content, but nothing is known regarding this feature. Our objective was to assess the frequency of observer dreams in PD and correlation with clinical features. Dreams reports were collected...
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
August 1, 2025
D Duran, P Arpaia, G D'Errico et al.
2 citations
A systematic review of electroencephalographic (EEG) correlates of Mindfulness- based treatment for chronic pain is presented. Recent technological advances have made EEG acquisition more accessible and also reliable. EEG monitoring before, during, and after treatment might support efficacy assessment and enable real- time adaptive intervention. The preliminary research extracted 131 papers...
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
April 30, 2025
Elisabetta Pupillo, Andrea Magnoni, Lorenzo Tinti et al.
Vegetative state (VS) is a severe disturbance of consciousness, often caused by cerebral insults, with limited long-term prognosis data. to provide a detailed picture of a cohort of patients treated at 2 long-term care facilities in Lombardy starting from 2014. Multicentric observational study. Subjects who met the diagnostic criteria for VS were admitted. A caregiver was identified for each...
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
June 1, 2023
Andrea E. Cavanna, Giulia Purpura, Anna Riva et al.
Stoic philosophy has multiple parallels with cognitive behavioural therapy interventions. In their ancient texts, the Roman Stoics present a set of theoretical principles and behavioural strategies that are directly relevant to the clinical care of patients with a wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions. Mindfulness is a key component of the 'third wave' of modern psychotherapy that closely...
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
September 1, 2018
Sandro Nannini
7 citations
Using an analysis of a voluntary action caused by a visual perception, I suggest that the three fundamental characteristics of this perception (being conscious, self-conscious, and provided with a content) are neurologically implemented by three distinct higher order properties of brain dynamics. This hypothesis allows me to sketch out a physicalist naturalist solution to the mind-body problem....
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
February 2012
Michele Terzaghi, Pietro Luca Ratti, Francesco Manni et al.
Sleep paralyses are viewed as pure motor phenomena featured by a dissociated state in which REM-related muscle atonia coexists with a wakefulness state of full consciousness. We present a 59-year-old man diagnosed with narcolepsy experiencing sleep paralysis, who failed to establish the boundaries between real experience and dream mentation during the paralysis: the patient's recall was indeed...