Induction of visual dream reports after transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCs) during Stage 2 sleep

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-379

  Jakobson, Antonia J ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^b   Conduit, Russell ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dreaming; Frontal cortex; Posterior parietal cortex; Stage 2 sleep; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCs); Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DREAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SLEEP STAGE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL DREAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; DREAMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP STAGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863784181     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2011.00994.x     Document Type: Article

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