NREM sleep dream recall, dream report length and cortical activation

Sleep and Hypnosis

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 54-58

  Wittmann, Lutz ^a,c   Palmy, Christina ^a   Schredl, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cortical activation (CA); Dream recall; Dream report length (DRL); Non rapid eye movement sleep (NREMS); Power spectral analysis (PSA); Rapid eye movement sleep (REMS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DREAMING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 4544247003     PISSN: 13021192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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