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Drug induced alterations in dreaming: An exploration of the dream data terrain outside activation-synthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Jim F. Pagel
Jim F. Pagel*
Affiliation:
Department of Family Practice, University of Colorado Medical School, Pueblo, CO81003
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pueo34@juno.com
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Abstract:

Two meta-analyses of pharmacological research are presented, demonstrating that psychoactive drugs have consistent effects on EEG and sleep outside of their effects on REM sleep, and demonstrating that drugs other than those affecting sleep neurotransmitter systems and REM sleep can also alter reported nightmare occurrence. These data suggest that the neurobiology data terrain outside activation-synthesis may include sleep and dream electrophysiology, cognitive reports of dreaming, effects of alterations in consciousness on dreaming, immunology and host defense, and clinical therapies for sleep disorders.

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Continuing Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 702 - 707
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Footnotes

Commentary onJ. Allan Hobson, Edward F. Pace-Schott, & Richard Stickgold (2000). Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states. BBS 23(6):793–842.

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