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ALLAN RECHTSCHAFFEN, PhD; FINI SCHULSINGER, MD; SARNOFF A. MEDNICK, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;10(1):89-93.

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Commenting on the frequently noted similarity of thinking mechanisms in dreams and schizophrenia, Oswald⁹ emphasized an obvious difference between the two states: ". . . psychiatric patients have typical schizophrenic experiences . . . while fully awake." While this difference precludes a complete identity of psychotic state and normal dreaming, it leaves open the possibility that although the schizophrenic state is manifest during wakefulness, it bears a phenomonological and physiological resemblance to dreaming in normals. In the present study, three physiological variables, electroencephalograph (EEG), eye movements, and electromyography (EMG), were examined during periods of wakefulness in five acute schizophrenics to determine whether there was any obvious similarity between the patterning of these variables in awake schizophrenics and dreaming normals. Acute schizophrenics were chosen as subjects because it seemed likely that their mentation would resemble dreaming more than other groups.

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Author Affiliations
CHICAGO; COPENHAGEN; ANN ARBOR, MICH

University of Chicago (Dr. Rechtschaffen); Kommunehospitalet (Dr. Schulsinger); University of Michigan (Dr. Mednick).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 17, 1963.

This research was supported by grants M-4151, MH-K3-18, 428, and MH-06867 from the National Institute of Mental Health, US Public Health Service. The study was conducted at the Psykologisk Institut, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen.

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