The Psychotomimetic Nature of Dreams : An Experimental Study

المؤلفون المشاركون

Wakerley, Dominic
Mason, Oliver

المصدر

Schizophrenia Research and Treatment

العدد

المجلد 2012، العدد 2012 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2012)، ص ص. 1-4، 4ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2012-03-26

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

4

التخصصات الرئيسية

الأمراض

الملخص EN

Several theories promote the similarities between dreaming and psychosis, but this has rarely been tested empirically.

We assessed dreaming and waking reality using the Psychotomimetic States Inventory, a measure of psychotic-like experience originally designed for drug studies.

Twenty participants completed the measure in each of two dream conditions and one waking condition.

Dreams were assessed upon waking naturally and also using a movement-activated (actigraph) alarm during the night.

Overall, participants reported more quasipsychotic characteristics during dreams (in both conditions) than when awake.

This was most marked for paranoia and delusional thinking, but differences were also seen for perceptual abnormalities, mania, and anhedonia.

The quality of dream experience seems particularly similar to psychosis in sometimes being highly self-referential and having a paranoid content.

Subjective changes to cognition and affect are consistent with alterations in prefrontal cortical activity during REM sleep that mirror those of schizophrenia.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Mason, Oliver& Wakerley, Dominic. 2012. The Psychotomimetic Nature of Dreams : An Experimental Study. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-505094

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Mason, Oliver& Wakerley, Dominic. The Psychotomimetic Nature of Dreams : An Experimental Study. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-505094

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Mason, Oliver& Wakerley, Dominic. The Psychotomimetic Nature of Dreams : An Experimental Study. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-505094

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-505094