Journal of Sleep Research
June 9, 2001
Patrick Mcnamara, Jensine Andresen, Jill Clark et al.
We tested the hypothesis (McNamara 1996; Zborowski and McNamara 1998) that dream recall and dream content would pattern with interpersonal attachment styles. In study I, college student volunteers were assessed on measures of attachment, dream recall, dream content and other psychologic measures. Results showed that participants who were classified as ‘high’ on an ‘insecure attachment’ scale...
Journal of Sleep Research
June 1, 2001
Edward F Pace-Schott, T Gersh, R Silvestri et al.
Clinical lore and a small number of published studies report that the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) intensify dreaming. This study examines the dream effects of paroxetine and fluvoxamine in order to both increase clinical knowledge of these agents and to test an important potential method for probing the relationship between REM sleep neurobiology and dreaming in humans....
Journal of Traumatic Stress
April 1, 2001
David Forbes, Andrea J Phelps, Tony McHugh
AbstractPosttraumatic nightmares are a hallmark of PTSD and distinct from general nightmares as they are often repetitive and faithful representations of the traumatic event. This paper presents data from a pilot study that examined the use of Imagery Rehearsal in treating combat‐related nightmares of 12 Vietnam veterans with PTSD. Three treatment groups, comprising 4 veterans in each,...
European Journal of Neurology
March 1, 2001
Michael Schredl
The present study investigated the dream recall frequency and the pattern of influencing factors of patients with restless legs syndrome in comparison with healthy controls. The patients’ dream recall frequency did not differ from that of healthy controls. Dream recall, however, was negatively associated with the number of periodic leg movements with arousal (PLMAI). Subjective estimates of...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
2001
J. Allan Hobson, Edward F Pace-Schott, Robert Stickgold
56 citations
: Sleep researchers in different disciplines disagree about how fully dreaming can be explained in terms of brain physiology. Debate has focused on whether REM sleep dreaming is qualitatively different from nonREM (NREM) sleep and waking. A review of psychophysiological studies shows clear quantitative differences between REM and NREM mentation and between REM and waking mentation. Recent...
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2001
Gilbert M. Tucker
Recurrent nightmares are common in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but rarely are nightmares treated directly. These researchers randomized 168 women with chronic nightmares and DSM-IIIR-diagnosed PTSD to receive imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) or to be placed on a wait list (control group). Of the participants, 79 percent were …
Journal of Sleep Research
December 1, 2000
The formal features of dream characters were studied in a sample of 320 dream reports submitted by 33 adult subjects (13 male, 20 female) of varying ages in a university extension course. Subjects were queried by questionnaire about dream characters immediately after recording their dreams upon awakening in their normal home setting. It was found that 48% of characters represented a named...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 2000
Harry T. Hunt
11 citations
The five authors vary in the degree to which the recent neuroscience of the REM state leads them towards multiple dimensions and forms of dreaming consciousness (Hobson et al.; Nielsen; Solms) or toward all-explanatory single factor models (Vertes & Eastman, Revonsuo). The view of the REM state as a prolongation of the orientation response to novelty fits best with the former pluralisms but not...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 2000
Stephen LaBerge
54 citations
Lucid dreaming provides a test case for theories of dreaming. For example, whether or not “loss of self-reflective awareness” is characteristic of dreaming, it is not necessary to dreaming. The fact that lucid dreamers can remember to perform predetermined actions and signal to the laboratory allows them to mark the exact time of particular dream events, allowing experiments to establish...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
October 1, 2000
Barry Krakow, Michael Hollifield, R Schrader et al.
Imagery-rehearsal therapy for chronic nightmares was assessed in a randomized, controlled study of sexual assault survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nightmares, sleep quality, and PTSD were assessed at baseline for 169 women, who were randomized into two groups: treatment (n = 87) and wait-list control (n = 82). Treatment consisted of two 3-hr sessions and one 1-hr session...