Recently added articles from Sleep and Hypnosis:
A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Dream Narratives: Japanese and Mandarin
Apr 01, 2008; ... This qualitative study examines 21 Japanese and Mandarin dream narratives of male and female speakers in relation to structural and functional differences. The findings demonstrated that, independent from cultural and linguistic context, dream narratives follow a similar structural format as ...
A Pilot Study of Positive Expectations and Focused Attention via a New Protocol for Optimizing Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Assessed with DNA Microarrays: The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience
Apr 01, 2008; ... We extend the use of DNA microarrays to explore a new psychotherapeutic protocol, The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience, an easy-to-learn approach to facilitating therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, meditation, and pastoral counseling. This pilot study assessed ...
Spontaneously Reported Colors in Dreams: Correlations with Attitude Towards Creativity, Personality and Memory
Apr 01, 2008; ... The continuity hypothesis of dreaming states that dream content reflects waking-life. Given that our daily world is colored, one would expect that all dreams contain some kind of color. The percentage of colored dreams, however, varies greatly between studies. Influencing factors might be the ...
Objective and Subjective Effort as a Function of Sleep and Energy
Apr 01, 2008; ... Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine the contribution of sleep related factors, including previous night sleep, past experience with sleep loss and current energy, to objective effort and the subjective experience of effort. Method: 187 non-sleep-deprived college ...
Assessing Insomnia in Epidemiological Studies: What Do We Need?
Jan 01, 2008; ... Insomnia is widely recognized to be the most common form of sleep complaint in the general population. This is true across the adult age range, and in every country and region in which sleep problems have been assessed (1). In recent years, there has been increasing focus on defining insomnia ...
Nightmares and Stress in Children
Jan 01, 2008; ... Objective: Whereas the effect of stress on nightmare frequency is well-documented in adults, research on this topic in children is scarce. In addition, these studies are often based on data obtained from the parents which may not be valid with regard to nightmare frequency and subjective stress ...
Time in Bed and Low Body Mass Index (BMI) Among Adolescents in China
Jan 01, 2008; ... Study Objective: To investigate the association between time in bed and low Body Mass Index (BMI <18.5 kg/m^sup 2^) among adolescents. Methods: This is a population school-based health survey utilising a two-stage random cluster sampling design. One thousand two hundred and sixty ...
Sleep, Energy and Self Rated Cognition Across 7 Nights Following Recreational Ecstasy/MDMA use
Jan 01, 2008; ... Objective: This study aimed to prospectively assess self-rated sleep length and sleep quality in recreational MDMA users (n= 18, 13 male, 5 female, 19.5 yrs) for the 7 days following ecstasy consumption, and to compare them to alcohol drinking controls (n= 18, 7 male, 11 female, ...
The Development and Validation of The Arabic Scale of Insomnia (ASI)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Study Objectives: To assess the psychometric parameters of the Arabic Scale of Insomnia (ASI), and to report its descriptive statistics and gender differences. Methods: Kuwaiti, non-clinical secondary school students (N=5,044), college students (N=2,210) and employees (N = 1,247) were ...
Validity Of The Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire For Adolescents (MEQ-A)
Apr 01, 2007; ... The present work aimed to validate the Italian version of the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire for Adolescents (MEQ-A) using circadian motor activity as external criterion. A sample of 60 healthy high school students (32 boys and 28 girls) wore an actigraph (Actiwatch®) on the non-dominant ...
REM Sleep and Visuo-Motor Skill Learning: A Correlational Study
Apr 01, 2007; ... A considerable amount of studies have shown that sleep facilitates memory consolidation. For procedural memory, some findings support the association with REM sleep but other studies linked motor learning with stage 2 sleep. The present study investigated the relationship between sleep ...
Continuous White Noise to Reduce Sleep Latency and Night Wakings in College Students
Apr 01, 2007; ... White noise (sound covering the entire range of human hearing from 20-20,000 hertz) was investigated to promote sleep in college students. Four college students were provided white noise generators and instructed to use them all night between 60 and 75 decibels (dB) for one month. A multiple ...
The Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale for Adults (SHCS): Validity And Reliability of The Turkish Version
Apr 01, 2007; ... The purpose of this study was to provide validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale for adults (SHCS). The Turkish version of the scale was administered to the 65 healthy participants (31 men, 34 women) meeting inclusion criteria twice in different ...
PTSD: Posttraumatic Sleep Disorder?
Jan 01, 2007; ... Krakow et al.'s study on sleep disorder profiles in trauma survivors addresses highly relevant questions for the understanding of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its treatment: are sleeprelated disturbances just one indicator of posttraumatic stress amongst a myriad of others? How do ...
Clinical Sleep Disorder Profiles in a Large Sample of Trauma Survivors: An Interdisciplinary View of Posttraumatic Sleep Disturbance
Jan 01, 2007; ... Study Objectives: To examine the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and self-reported sleep, sleepiness, and nightmare complaints in a convenience sample of 437 trauma survivors. Method: Based on symptom severity reports, individuals were classified as having psychophysiological ...
Turkish Version of Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ)
Jan 01, 2007; ... The purpose of this study was to provide validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Morningness-Eeveningness Questionnaire (MEQ). The Turkish version of the scale was administered to the 171 healthy participants (87 men and 84 women) twice in different times. The internal ...
The Long Range Effect of Sleep on Episodic Memory
Jan 01, 2007; ... In past studies on the relationship between sleep and episodic memory, enhanced recall performance has usually been observed with short retention intervals of eight hours of sleep or waking. Experiments addressing the question as to whether this effect is also detectable for longer retention ...
A test of the Threat Simulation Theory - Replication of Results in an Independent Sample
Jan 01, 2007; ... The Threat Simulation Theory (TST) postulates that dreaming evolved as a mental simulation for the rehearsal of the neurocognitive mechanisms essential for threat recognition and avoidance behaviors. In the present study, we tested the predictions of the TST that dreams are specialized in the ...
Effect of a Motor Learning Task on REM Sleep Parameters
Apr 01, 2006; ... Previous research has shown that learning of procedural tasks enhance REM sleep. An experiment in which eleven subjects either learned a motor task or engaged in a control task was carried out in a balanced within-design to investigate whether motor learning would affect sleep. An initial ...
Additional Validity Evidence for the Reduced Version of the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQr)
Apr 01, 2006; ... The aim of the present work was to validate the reduced version of the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire by means of sleep-wake behaviour monitored by actigraph. A sample of 110 university students, 40 males and 70 females, wore one actigraph (AMI 32K) on non dominant wrist for three ...