Clocks & Sleep
September 16, 2021
Rabya Mughal, Siu Sing Wong, Dagmara Dimitriou et al.
8 citations
Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) experience significantly higher rates of sleep disturbances than their typically developing (TD) peers. Pre-sleep anxiety and waking emotional content is known to affect the content and frequency of nightmares, which can be distressing to children and caregivers. This is the first study to analyse...
Behavioral Sciences
September 4, 2021
Parisa Gazerani
4 citations
Nightmares usually occur during the sleep phase of rapid eye movement (REM) and are associated with some physical symptoms, including sweating, shortness of breath, and lower limb movements. Emotions of fear, anger, shame, and sadness may also accompany nightmares. These symptoms can occur during dreaming, upon awakening, or later when the dream experience is recollected. Nightmares may...
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
September 1, 2021
Claudia Picard-Deland, Tomy Aumont, Arnaud Samson-Richer et al.
Sleep facilitates memory consolidation through offline reactivations of memory traces. Dreaming may play a role in memory improvement and may reflect these memory reactivations. To experimentally address this question, we used targeted memory reactivation (TMR), i.e., application, during sleep, of a stimulus that was previously associated with learning, to assess whether it influences...
Somnologie: Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin
September 1, 2021
Katharina Lüth, Judith Schmitt, Michael Schredl
Abstract Background Since people with nightmares rarely seek help, low-threshold interventions and self-help methods are needed. Among different treatment approaches for nightmares, imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) is the method of choice. Objective In the current study, the authors tested whether IRT is also effective when applied in a short version, within the scope of a single session of...
Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome
August 24, 2021
Cristina Marogna, Emanuele Montanari, Silvio Contiero et al.
8 citations
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of health emergency affecting the entire world population. Given the serious practical and psychological difficulties and complications that have been experienced during this period, many scholars have created hypothesis, as a consequence, an increased possibility of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within...
Journal of Sleep Research
August 18, 2021
Kathryn Kennedy, Célyne Bastien, Perrine Ruby et al.
25 citations
Nightmares are often associated with psychiatric disorders and acute stress. This study explores how the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced the content of nightmares. A sample of N = 419 US adults completed online surveys about sleep and COVID-19 experiences. Participants were asked about the degree to which they agreed with statements linking greater general stress, worse overall sleep and...
Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome
August 12, 2021
Massimiliano Sommantico, Ilaria Iorio, Marina Lacatena et al.
10 citations
Based on the continuity hypothesis of dreaming, we have studied the effects of lockdown measures on Italian adolescents’ and adults’ dreams during the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A sample of 475 subjects (73.9% women; 48.4% adolescents; ages 12-70 years, M=25.10, SD=12.2) was recruited via the Internet between April 17, 2020 and May 18, 2020. Participants...
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
August 9, 2021
Abidemi I Otaiku
Background: Dream content alterations in Parkinson's disease (PD) are associated with motor and cognitive dysfunction cross-sectionally. Although recent studies suggest abnormal dream content in PD might also predict cognitive decline, the relationship between dream content and motor decline in PD remains unknown. Objective: To investigate whether abnormal dream content in PD predicts both...
Preprints.org
August 3, 2021
Rabya Mughal, Siu Sing Wong, Dagmara Dimitriou et al.
preprint
Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) experience significantly higher rates of sleep disturbances than their typically developing peers. Pre-sleep anxiety and waking emotional content is known to affect the content and frequency of nightmares, which can be distressing to children and caregivers. This is the first study to analyse nightmare...
Consciousness and Cognition
August 1, 2021
Piotr Szymanek
4 citations
The commonsense view is that a lucid dream starts when the dreamer realizes that they are currently dreaming. The notion of realization, however, has been accepted at face value, with little consideration of whether the dreamer realizes that they are dreaming in the sense of actual reasoning, or if it is a mere epiphenomenon of lucid dream initiation. This article offers a solution to this...