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Vivid dreams, hallucinations, psychosis and REM sleep in Guillain-Barré syndrome
... their association with rapid eye movement sleep (rem sleep) using continuous sleep monitoring in 13 GBS patients with (n = 7) and without (n = 6) hallucinations and 6 tetraplegic ICU controls without hallucinations. Although sleep was short and frag...
Substances that Enhance Recall and Lucidity During Dreaming
... any of a class of substances that intensify rem sleep via the Acetylcholine esterase inhibitor class of drugs. 2. A method according to claim 1 wherein said inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of physostigmine, tetrahydroaminoacr...
Sleep and General Anesthesia as Altered States of Consciousness
... this stage we go back to stage 2 and then enter rem sleep or rapid eye movement sleep. Here EEG tracings look exactly like the beta waves that are observed when we are completely awake. In fact, brain-imaging studies show that the neurons in the ce...
... 60% of normal waking values, whereas in rem sleep, metabolism returns to nearly normal waking values.17 When different anesthetics, such as propofol,18 halothane,19 or isoflurane,20 are titrated to the point of unresponsiveness, global c...
The stuff dreams are made of: anatomical substrates of REM sleep
... Less elaborate dreams can occur in non-rem sleep as well. In the new paper, Lu et al.1 combine studies of neuronal activation, staining for the protein encoded by the immediate-early gene c-fos, identification of the neurotransmitters ...
The neuropsychology of REM sleep dreaming
... cholinergic mechanisms which are essential to rem sleep and only come into full play when the serotonergic and noradrenergic systems are inhibited. In REM, the brain thus becomes activated but processes its internally generated data in a manner q...
... delta waves and low energy activation, while rem sleep and dreaming begin to produce beta activity and energy profiles similar to those seen in waking activity.7 [fig]4;1[/fig]Nocturnal dream activity is a process of memory consolidation.8 In...
Theta and gamma coherence along the septotemporal axis of the hippocampus
... (long) axis of the hippocampus in rats during rem sleep, a behavioral state during which theta signals are unaffected by external sensory input or ongoing behavior. Unilateral entorhinal cortical inputs are thought to play a prominent role in the...
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