I wish to convey the enthusiasm that I feel about dreams, their significance in clinical work, and the many new ways that we have learned to understand them. I would also like to familiarize the reader with some findings about dreams that have come from neurobiologists and cognitive scientists. Some of those researchers have made broadside attacks on the psychoanalytic theory of dreams and the ...

We discuss the relationship between sleep, dreams, and memory, proposing that the content of dreams reflects aspects of memory consolidation taking place during the different stages of sleep. Although we acknowledge the likely involvement of various neuromodulators in these phenomena, we focus on the hormone cortisol, which is known to exert influence on many of the brain systems involved in me...

DISTURBING DREAMS ARE REPORTED TO BE COMMON IN EARLY CHILDHOOD (E.G., DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, FOURTH EDITION [DSM-IV] International Classification of Sleep Disorders-2) even though there is a scarcity of cross-sectional research—and a complete absence of longitudinal research—on this question. The possibilities that bad dreams reflect a stable personality trait or...

End-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) are well documented throughout history and across cultures with impact on the dying person and their loved ones having profound meaning. Published studies on ELDVs are primarily based on surveys or interviews with clinicians or families of dead persons. This study uniquely examined patient dreams and visions from their personal perspective. This article re...

Objectives: Evaluate the available informations about dreams, analyzing hypotheses of neuroscience and psychoanalysis. It is proposed to show discoveries dreams’ neurobiology as well how psychology can explain this phenomenon, in order observe an integration between these perspectives.
 
 Methods: For literature review studies were selected (databases - MEDLINE, PUBMED, SCIENCE DIRECT...