Publications by authors named "J de Windt"
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- Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) involve feeling as though you're outside your physical body, and researchers are looking into how these experiences relate to sleep, particularly during REM sleep.
- The paper suggests that staying aware during transitions to REM sleep might increase the chances of having sleep-related OBEs, and introduces a model to understand how OBEs connect with various sleep states like lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis.
- The research also aims to explore the brain activity associated with sleep-related OBEs and links these experiences to OBEs that happen while awake through a theory called predictive coding.
Depersonalisation (DP) is characterized by fundamental alterations to the sense of self that include feelings of detachment and estrangement from one's body. We conducted an online study in healthy participants (n = 514) with DP traits to investigate and quantify the subjective experience of body and self during waking and dreaming, as the vast majority of previous studies focussed on waking experience only. Investigating dreams in people experiencing DP symptoms may help us understand whether the dream state is a 'spared space' where people can temporarily 'retrieve' their sense of self and sense of bodily presence.
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- The study explores how COVID-19-related concerns and anxiety impact people's mind-wandering and dreaming, specifically looking at the emotional quality of these experiences.
- Researchers used daily logs over two weeks from 172 individuals to track connections between daily worries and the affect experienced during mind-wandering and dreaming.
- Results showed that poor sleep quality led to more negative feelings in dreams, while consistent COVID-19 worry was linked to increased negative affect in both waking daydreams and nighttime dreams.
Background: Symptoms of hand osteoarthritis (OA), such as pain, reduced grip strength, loss of range of motion (ROM) and joint stiffness, can lead to impaired hand function and difficulty with daily activities. Rehabilitative interventions with orthoses are commonly in the treatment of hand OA to reduce pain, improve hand strength and ROM, provide support for improved function and help with joint stability.
Purpose: The objectives of this perception-based study were to evaluate the effect of a silicone wrist hand orthoses (SWHO) on pain and daily functioning.
Objective: Osteoarthritis is one of the most common chronic conditions leading to disability among older people (age 60+ years). Knee osteoarthritis has a significant impact on daily functioning. Pain, stiffness, reduced strength, changes in posture, and reduced knee stability may result in reduced mobility.
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