New DARC-NESS Model Explains Why Nightmares Persist in Children
A mastery-based cognitive-behavioral model centers on "nightmare efficacy" to help clinicians create personalized treatment plans for youth.
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New Social Media Platform Dedicated to Sharing and Analyzing Dreams
A new platform from REMspace offers a space for users to share, interpret, and discuss their dreams, fostering a community around the universal experience of dreaming.
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Veterans Find Relief from Nightmares with NightWare and Apple Watch
NightWare uses information from the Apple Watch heart rate sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope to detect a nightmare and then disrupt it through haptic feedback.
Dreaming May Have Evolved as a Strategy for Co-operative Survival
New research explores how the content and emotional function of dreams varies across different cultural contexts.
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Bad Dreams in Children Linked to a Higher Risk of Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease in Adulthood—New Study
Remarkably, compared with children who never had bad dreams, those who had persistent bad dreams were 76% more likely to develop cognitive impairment and were 640% more likely to develop Parkinson’s.
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Positive Sound Exposure Reduces Nightmares in Sleep Study
Investigators found that positive sound exposure, used in conjunction with imagery rehearsal therapy, produced promising results for individuals with nightmare disorders.
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How COVID Can Disturb Your Sleep and Dreams—And What Could Help
A second wave of data is beginning to explain how becoming infected with COVID is affecting our sleep and even intruding into our dreams.
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Nightmare Disorder Is a Treatable Sleep Disorder That Is Often Hidden in Plain Sight
Nightmare disorder is characterized by bad dreams that disrupt sleep. Patients with the condition will often experience a racing heart, night sweats, and panic attacks.
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Parkinson’s Disease: Bad Dreams Could be an Early Warning Sign
People with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s who experience recurring dreams with “aggressive or action-packed” content have more rapid disease progression.
Read MoreWhat Are the Most Common Nightmares?
Amerisleep surveyed 2,000 people about their anxiety-fueled nightmares and broke down the data by gender and relationship status.
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Can Melatonin Cause Bad Dreams? What Experts Say
A National Center for Health Statistics report found the number of adults taking melatonin more than doubled between 2007 and 2012.
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Beta-blockers May Contribute to Sleep Disturbances
Unusual dreams, insomnia and sleep disorders may be linked to beta-blockers, according to new research.
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Experts Explain Why You Might Experience an Uptick in Nightmares While Taking Melatonin
Popsugar: One of the more surprising side effects of taking melatonin? Nightmares. Here’s why they happen — and what you can do to get a more peaceful night’s sleep.
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In Heart Patients, Nightmares Linked with Insomnia & Anxiety
Health professionals should ask patients if they experience bad dreams as a warning sign for depression, anxiety, or trouble sleeping.
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FDA Grants NightWare’s De Novo Application to Treat Nightmares in PTSD
The device provides gentle vibration through touch based on an analysis of heart rate and motion during sleep.
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COVID-19 Infects Dreams
Scientists used AI to help analyze the dream content and found that the coronavirus had infected more than half of reported distressed dreams.
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In Veterans, Nightmares & Heart Disease Linked
Frequent and severe nightmares were associated with heart problems, high blood pressure, and heart attack.
Read MoreNightmares in Veterans Tied to Heart Disease
Nightmares that occurred twice a week or more were linked with cardiovascular disease in relatively young military veterans, even after controlling for post-traumatic stress disorder, a cross-sectional study showed.
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