Neural correlates of dream lucidity obtained from contrasting lucid versus non-lucid REM sleep: A combined EEG/fMRI case study

Sleep

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1017-1020

  Dresler, Martin ^a   Wehrle, Renate ^a   Spoormaker, Victor I ^a   Koch, Stefan P ^b   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Steiger, Axel ^a   Obrig, Hellmuth ^b,c,d   Sämann, Philipp G ^a   Czisch, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Lucid dreaming; REM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; COGNITION; CUNEUS; DREAMING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUCID DREAMING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; DREAMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 84863221981     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.1974     Document Type: Article

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