ArticleSleep2017
REM Sleep Theta Changes in Frequent Nightmare Recallers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Nightmare disorder shows reduced slow oscillation-dominant spindle coupling in NREM sleep.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2026Article
- Polysomnographic Sleep in Idiopathic Nightmares: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Slow-wave sleep and REM sleep differentially contribute to memory representational transformation.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Altered parasympathetic activity during sleep and emotionally arousing wakefulness in frequent nightmare recallers.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- All-night spectral and microstate EEG analysis in patients with recurrent isolated sleep paralysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- What about dreams? State of the art and open questions.Journal of sleep research · 2022Review
- Local Neuronal Synchronization in Frequent Nightmare Recallers and Healthy Controls: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Mental Sleep Activity and Disturbing Dreams in the Lifespan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Nightmare Severity Is Inversely Related to Frontal Brain Activity During Waking State Picture Viewing.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2019Article
- Increased heartbeat-evoked potential during REM sleep in nightmare disorder.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- The Functional Role of Dreaming in Emotional Processes.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Frequent nightmares in Chinese patients undergoing methadone maintenance therapy: prevalence, correlates, and their association with functional impairment.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2019Article
- Oscillatory EEG Activity During REM Sleep in Elderly People Predicts Subsequent Dream Recall After Awakenings.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
- Incorporation of recent waking-life experiences in dreams correlates with frontal theta activity in REM sleep.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Study Objectives: To replicate and expand upon past research by evaluating sleep and wake electroencephalographic spectral activity in samples of frequent nightmare (NM) recallers and healthy controls. Methods: Computation of spectral activity for sleep (non-REM and REM) and wake electroencephalogram recordings from 18 frequent NM recallers and 15 control participants. Results: There was higher "slow-theta" (2-5 Hz) for NM recallers than for controls during wake, non-REM sleep and REM sleep. Differences were clearest for frontal and central derivations and for REM sleep cycles 2-4. There was also higher beta activity during NREM sleep for NM recallers. Findings partially replicate past research by demonstrating higher relative "slow-theta" (3-4Hz) for NM recallers than for controls. Conclusions: Findings are consistent with a neurocognitive model of nightmares that stipulates cross-state anomalies in emotion processing in NM-prone individuals.
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