Fight or flight? Dream content during sleepwalking/sleep terrors vs rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 391-398

  Uguccioni, Ginevra ^a,b,c,d   Golmard, Jean Louis ^a   de Fontréaux, Alix Noël ^a,b,c,d   Leu Semenescu, Smaranda ^a,c,d   Brion, Agnès ^a   Arnulf, Isabelle ^a,b,c,d  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Dreaming; Parasomnia; REM sleep behavior disorder; Simulation; Sleep terrors; Sleepwalking; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DREAM; DREAMING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NIGHTMARE; NONRAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP; PARASOMNIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGHT TERRORS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; SLEEP, REM; SOMNAMBULISM;

EID: 84876797217     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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