Testing the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in lucid dreaming: A tDCS study

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1214-1222

  Stumbrys, Tadas ^a   Erlacher, Daniel ^b   Schredl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Lucid dreaming; REM sleep; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL DREAMING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUCID DREAMING; MALE; NIGHT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REM SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; LUCID DREAMING; REM SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION (TDCS);

ADULT; AWARENESS; DREAMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SLEEP, REM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883687609     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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