Sleep Science
January 24, 2024
Horacio Balam Álvarez-García, Ulises Jiménez Correa
In adults, nightmare disorder is related to sleep deprivation, drug consumption or abuse, or other comorbid sleep disorders such as insomnia or insufficient sleep syndrome. Behavioral treatment has solid scientific evidence in disorders such as insomnia and, more recently, parasomnias. The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical effectiveness of a Brief Behavioral Telemedicine...
Journal of Sleep Research
January 17, 2024
María Campo-Redondo, Gabriel Andrade
Perceived ethnic discrimination is known to be associated with anxiety and depression, and in turn, anxiety and depression are known to be associated with nightmare frequency and distress. This elicits a question: is perceived ethnic discrimination associated with nightmare frequency and distress? In this study, 179 female university students from the United Arab Emirates were assessed to...
Dreaming
2024
Ecological momentary assessment of daily affect, stress, and nightmare reports among combat-exposed Veterans.
Behavioral Sleep Medicine
2024
Stanley Kam Ki Lam, Cherry Tin Yan Cheung, Edward K S Wang et al.
Previous studies showed that nightmares are prevalent and are associated with negative health outcomes. However, no empirical data is available demonstrating the extent to which nightmare disorder persists over time. Current literature provides a limited understanding of the trajectory and wider mental health outcomes of nightmare disorder. This longitudinal study examined the persistence and...
International Journal of Business and Economic Affairs
2024
Naila Shakeel, Attiya Khan, Sajid Mehmood Alvi
1 citation
This study investigated the effect of nightmare on sleep disturbance and emotional dysregulation among University Students.The sample size comprised of 300 students which include 150 males and 150 females. Data was taken from the different departments of Government Post Graduate College for boys and University of Haripur by using the purposive sampling technique. Three instruments were used to...
SLEEP Advances
2024
Christopher M. McGrory, Augustus Kram Mendelsohn, Suzanne L. Pineles et al.
2 citations
Study Objectives: Trauma-related nightmares (TRNs) are a hallmark symptom of PTSD and are highly correlated with PTSD severity and poor sleep quality. Given the salience and arousal associated with TRNs, they might be an effective target for imaginal exposures during Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. As a first step in this line of research, the current study compared participants' emotional...
SLEEP Advances
2024
Julia Fechner, Maren Born, Massimiliano Mancini et al.
1 citation
Abstract Study Objectives The “Zeigarnik effect” refers to the phenomenon where future intentions are remembered effectively only as long as they are not executed. This study investigates whether these intentions, which remain active during sleep, influence dream content. Methods After an adaptation night, each of the 19 participants (10 women and 9 men) received three different task plans in...
Journal of Sleep Medicine
December 31, 2023
Yu-Jin Kang, Su-Hyun Han
Objectives: We aimed to examine dream recall and nightmare distress in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and identify the associating factors.Methods: This cross-sectional study retrospectively enrolled adult participants (age ≥18 years) with newly diagnosed OSA that was confirmed by full-night polysomnography between 2016 and 2022. Dreaming components were assessed using a nine-item...
Emerging topics in life sciences
December 22, 2023
Caroline L. Horton
Until recently, understanding the neurobiology of dreaming has relied upon on correlating a subjective dream report with a measure of brain activity or function sampled from a different occasion. As such, most assumptions about dreaming come from the neuroscience of rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep from which many, but not all, dream reports are recalled. Core features of REM sleep (intense...
PNAS Nexus
December 19, 2023
Guglielmo Foffani
17 citations
The boundaries between waking and sleeping-when falling asleep (hypnagogic) or waking up (hypnopompic)-can be challenging for our ability to monitor and interpret reality. Without proper understanding, bizarre but relatively normal hypnagogic/hypnopompic experiences can be misinterpreted as psychotic hallucinations (occurring, by definition, in the fully awake state), potentially leading to...