Psychodynamic psychiatry
December 1, 2014
Myron L Glucksman
The prediction of suicidal intent remains a clinical problem. This presentation illustrates that a distinction may be made between the manifest dream reports of patients who are potentially or acutely suicidal and those who are not. A review of the literature reveals that the manifest dream reports of clinically depressed, non-suicidal individuals differ from those who are depressed and acutely...
Dreaming
December 1, 2014
Charles D. Laughlin, Adam J. Rock
4 citations
Shamanism is a worldwide social phenomenon consisting of a set of practices (e.g., ritualistic drumming, sensory deprivation, the ingestion of entheogens and dream incubation) designed to obtain knowledge from alternative realities for the purpose of benefiting one's social group. The aim of this paper is to provide a cross-cultural exploration of dreaming in the context of shamanism. We...
Brain and Cognition
November 1, 2014
Péter Simor, János Körmendi, Klára Horváth et al.
Abnormal arousal processes, sympathetic influences, as well as wake-like alpha activity during sleep were reported as pathophysiological features of Nightmare Disorder. We hypothesized that in Nightmare Disorder, wake-like cortical activity and peripheral measures linked to arousals would be triggered by physiological processes related to the initiation of REM periods. Therefore, we examined...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
October 15, 2014
Vincent Mysliwiec, Brian O'Reilly, Jason Polchinski et al.
Study objectives: To characterize the clinical, polysomnographic and treatment responses of patients with disruptive nocturnal behaviors (DNB) and nightmares following traumatic experiences. Methods: A case series of four young male, active duty U.S. Army Soldiers who presented with DNB and trauma related nightmares. Patients underwent a clinical evaluation in a sleep medicine clinic, attended...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 9, 2014
J Allan Hobson, Charles C-H Hong, Karl Friston
This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual reality generator that - through experience-dependent plasticity - becomes a generative or predictive model of the world. This model, which is most clearly revealed in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep dreaming, may provide the theater for conscious experience. Functional neuroimaging evidence for brain...
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
October 2014
Colin Cameron, Diane Watson, Jeffrey D. Robinson
Nabilone is a synthetic cannabinoid that has shown promise for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related insomnia and nightmares as well as efficacy in the management of chronic pain. It has also been proposed for harm reduction in cannabis dependence. Its effectiveness for management of concurrent disorders in seriously mentally ill correctional populations has not been...
Pathologie-biologie
October 1, 2014
Aline Gauchat, Jean R Séguin, Antonio Zadra
Relatively little is known about nightmares and other forms of disturbed dreaming in children. This article reviews the literature on the prevalence and correlates of nightmares in children and highlights key methodological issues in the field. Results show that regardless of how they are defined and measured, nightmares affect a significant proportion of children of all ages and there is some...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
October 1, 2014
Caroline L. Horton
This investigation aimed to characterize the personality profile of dream-recallers using a psychometrically-validated measure of dream remembering (the MED-Q) (Horton & Conway, 2009), and considered these relationships in terms of confabulation: the tendency to confuse reality with imaginings and thus create false memories. In Experiment 1, 221 participants completed the MED-Q and a battery of...
September 30, 2014
Wanzhen Chen, You Xu, Ming Zhu et al.
Background: Nightmare experience is associated with a broad spectrum of psychopathology, however, there lacks a structure-validated questionnaire to measure the effects of nightmare contents on the physical, psychological and behavioral aspects. Methods: Based on the clinical manifestation and previous documentation, we have designed a matrix of 95 items to measure the nightmare contents, plus...
August 7, 2014
Habibolah Khazaie, M. Masoudi, Shahrzad Khoshbakht et al.
Objective: The aim of this study was assess the association between risk of sleep apnea and reported unpleasant dream content in healthy individual. Methods: In this prospective study, participants completed Berlin questionnaire (BQ) to assess their risk for sleep apnea and also, completed a self-report questionnaire that assessed unpleasant dream experiences over the past month including...