Nightmares in patients with psychosis: The relation with sleep, psychotic, affective, and cognitive symptoms

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 354-361

  Sheaves, Bryony ^a   Onwumere, Juliana ^b,c   Keen, Nadine ^c   Stahl, Daniel ^b,c   Kuipers, Elizabeth ^b,c  

^a WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Nightmares; Psychoses; Psychotic symptoms; Schizophrenia; Sleep; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; NIGHTMARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSITIVE SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; SLEEP QUALITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; DELUSION; DREAM; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; DELUSIONS; DEPRESSION; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85012825367     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674371506000804     Document Type: Article

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