an 80-year-old man developed nightmares while using citalopram for mild depression. during the first two weeks of treatment with citalopram (10 mg daily), he didn’t experience any adverse reactions. after two weeks, he developed nightmaresand vivid dreams that were repeated every night and awakened him in midnight. although the signs of depression were relatively disappeared, the patient was an...

The precriber's first problem is : On what basis to make the choice? On the basis of the established name of the comapny? On the basis of the retail price of the drug? In the recent past, the drug were required to be prescribed by their pharmacological name, with the prescribing doctor having the option to mention the company's name alongside. For many reasons, this practice did not catch on. O...

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Early maternal separation is a particularly stressful experience. Current models of nightmare production emphasize negative emotionality as having a central role in determining dream affect. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that persons who experienced early maternal separation (before one year of age and lasting at least one month) report more frequent nightmare experiences and bad dreams as ...

Accepting the common lay definition of nightmare as any form of upsetting, dreamlike cognition occurring in the midst of sleep, the author argues for a classification of nightmares that would be based, not on physiological findings, but on what the upsetting nocturnal occurrence turns out to mean to the dreamer. Three types of nightmare identified on this basis are illustrated through dream seq...

Nightmares are common, occurring weekly in 4%-10% of the population, and are associated with female gender, younger age, increased stress, psychopathology, and dispositional traits. Nightmare pathogenesis remains unexplained, as do differences between nontraumatic and posttraumatic nightmares (for those with or without posttraumatic stress disorder) and relations with waking functioning. No mod...

Tropical soft-bottom communities-complex associations of fish and invertebrates living on the smooth Continental Shelf areas between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn-are both a marine ecologist's dream and a nightmare. They are a dream because their wide variety of species adaptations and lifehistory str.Hegies implies myriads of possible interactions and allows the foundation of large numbe...