Aetiology and treatment of nightmare disorder: State of the art and future perspectives

A Gieselmann, M Ait Aoudia, M Carr… - Journal of sleep …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This consensus paper provides an overview of the state of the art in research on the
aetiology and treatment of nightmare disorder and outlines further perspectives on these …

Sleep disturbance in PTSD and other anxiety-related disorders: an updated review of clinical features, physiological characteristics, and psychological and …

A Richards, JC Kanady, TC Neylan - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020 - nature.com
The current report provides an updated review of sleep disturbance in posttraumatic stress
disorder and anxiety-related disorders. First, this review provides a summary description of …

The functional role of dreaming in emotional processes

S Scarpelli, C Bartolacci, A D'Atri, M Gorgoni… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Dream experience (DE) represents a fascinating condition linked to emotional processes
and the human inner world. Although the overlap between REM sleep and dreaming has …

Pandemic nightmares: Effects on dream activity of the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy

S Scarpelli, V Alfonsi, A Mangiaruga… - Journal of Sleep …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 has critically impacted the world. Recent works have found substantial changes
in sleep and mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Dreams could give us crucial …

Pandemic dreams: network analysis of dream content during the COVID-19 lockdown

AK Pesonen, J Lipsanen, R Halonen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We used crowdsourcing (CS) to examine how COVID-19 lockdown affects the content of
dreams and nightmares. The CS took place on the sixth week of the lockdown. Over the …

[HTML][HTML] Nightmares and psychiatric symptoms: a systematic review of longitudinal, experimental, and clinical trial studies

B Sheaves, S Rek, D Freeman - Clinical psychology review, 2023 - Elsevier
Nightmares occur across a wide range of psychiatric disorders, but outside of PTSD
presentations are infrequently considered a treatment priority. We aimed to assess evidence …

Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion

NB Mota, J Weissheimer, M Ribeiro, M De Paiva… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The current global threat brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread social
isolation, posing new challenges in dealing with metal suffering related to social distancing …

Dreams and nightmares in healthy adults and in patients with sleep and neurological disorders

F Siclari, K Valli, I Arnulf - The Lancet Neurology, 2020 - thelancet.com
Dreams are experiences that occur during sleep, while we are disconnected from the
environment. Thanks to recent progress in neuroimaging techniques, it is now becoming …

What about dreams? State of the art and open questions

S Scarpelli, V Alfonsi, M Gorgoni… - Journal of Sleep …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have tried to identify the neurobiological bases of dream experiences,
nevertheless some questions are still at the centre of the debate. Here, we summarise the …

Nightmare frequency and nightmare topics in a representative German sample

M Schredl - European archives of psychiatry and clinical …, 2010 - Springer
Nightmares are defined as disturbing mental experiences that generally occur during REM
sleep and often result in awakening. Whereas the number of publications addressing …