Nightmares: From anxiety symptom to sleep disorder

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-31

  Spoormaker, Victor I ^a   Schredl, Michael ^b   Bout, Jan Van Den ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Definition; Etiology; Nightmares; Polysomnography; PTSD; Treatment

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PAROXETINE; PRAZOSIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANGER; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; GRIEF; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; NIGHTMARE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER;

ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DREAMS; HUMANS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; SLEEP DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 30844461018     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2005.06.001     Document Type: Review

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