How we remember the stuff that dreams are made of: Neurobiological approaches to the brain mechanisms of dream recall

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 592-596

  De Gennaro, Luigi ^a   Marzano, Cristina ^a   Cipolli, Carlo ^b   Ferrara, Michele ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Diffusion tensor imaging; Dream recall; EEG oscillations; Intracranial recordings; Local sleep; Subcortical nuclei

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DREAM RECALL; DREAMING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP PATTERN; WAKEFULNESS;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DREAMS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; SLEEP;

EID: 81355132932     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.10.017     Document Type: Review

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