Disturbed dreaming and the instability of sleep: Altered nonrapid eye movement sleep microstructure in individuals with frequent nightmares as revealed by the cyclic alternating pattern

Sleep

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 413-419

  Simor, Péter ^a   Bódizs, Róbert ^b   Horváth, Klára ^c   Ferri, Raffaele ^d  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arousals; Cyclic alternating pattern (CAP); Dreaming; Nightmare; Sleep microstructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC ALTERNATING PATTERN; DEPRESSION; DREAMING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NIGHTMARE; NONREM SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

EID: 84874621813     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.2462     Document Type: Article

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