Long-term effects of extreme situational stress on sleep and dreaming
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (3) , 344-347
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.3.344
Abstract
Sleep data were obtained on 11 patients who had survived traumatic evens and who complained of sleep disturbances. Each was awakened from REM and non-REM sleep for dream recall. The patients had lower sleep efficiency indices (because of prolonged sleep latency and larger amounts of "awake" plus "movement" time within sleep periods), shorter REM time, and longer REM latencies than did control subjects. Four of the 11 patients had REM- and non-REM-related nightmares, which, in two sea disaster patients were associated with REM-related motor activity. The rest of the patients had unusually low dream recall in spite of high eye movement density.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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