作者
Louis-Philippe Marquis, Sarah-Hélène Julien, Andrée-Ann Baril, Cloé Blanchette-Carrière, Tyna Paquette, Michelle Carr, Jean-Paul Soucy, Jacques Montplaisir, Tore Nielsen
发表日期
2019/2/15
期刊
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
卷号
15
期号
2
页码范围
253-264
出版商
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
简介
Study Objectives
Growing evidence suggests that nightmares have considerable adverse effects on waking behavior, possibly by increasing post-sleep negative emotions. Dysphoric reactions to nightmares are one component of nightmare severity for which the neural correlates are unknown. Here, we investigate possible neural correlates of nightmare severity in a sample of individuals who frequently recall nightmares.
Methods
Our principal measure of nightmare severity is nightmare distress as indexed by the Nightmare Distress Questionnaire (NDQ), and secondary measures are retrospective and prospective estimates of frequency of recalling dysphoric dreams (DD). We used high-resolution technetium 99m ethyl cysteinate dimer single photon emission computed tomography to assess regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) while 18 individuals who were frequent nightmare recallers viewed negative and neutral …
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