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I. The Effect on Schizophrenic Patients

Gerald W. Vogel, MD; Arthur C. Traub, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1968;18(3):287-300.

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THE FUNCTION of dreaming and its relation to mental illness have recently become more amenable to laboratory investigation because of the discovery of reliable physiological indices of dreaming. Aserinsky, Kleitman, and Dement demonstrated that dreaming regularly occurs during discrete sleep periods characterized by intermittent bursts of conjugate rapid eye movements (REM) and a low voltage desynchronized electroencephalogram pattern (emergent stage 1).^1-3 In the human adult REM sleep alternates with nonrapid eye movement sleep (NREM) in a cycle of approximately 90 minutes, during which REM sleep typically follows NREM sleep.² Each night REM sleep occurs about four to six times in successively longer periods lasting 10 to 40 minutes and it occupies about 25% (100 minutes) of total sleep time.^2.4

The unexpected finding that such abundant dreaming occurs at regular intervals every night strengthened the hypothesis that dreaming might be essential . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago (Dr. Vogel), and the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago (Dr. Traub). Dr. Traub is now at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 13, 1967.

This is an expanded version, of work presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep, Santa Monica, Calif, April 1967, and to be published in Psychophysiology as an abstract.

Reprint requests to Sleep Laboratory, 5741 S Drexel Ave, Chicago 60637 (Dr. Vogel).

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