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J Clin Sleep Med
January 2025
Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, and Departments of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center, and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.
Study Objectives: To elucidate whether awake handedness in sexsomnia is retained during sleep to uncover potential clues about the underlying neurophysiologic mechanisms.
Methods: Participants' and observers' self-reported handedness during sexsomnia events.
Results: Case 1: A 22 y/o right-handed female with an eight-year history of nocturnal sleep-related masturbatory behavior (SMB) involving the left hand (LH) exclusively.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
January 2025
Center for Psychiatry Research and Center for Cognitive and Computational Neuropsychiatry, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden.
Soccer is arguably the most widely followed sport worldwide, and many dream of becoming soccer players. However, only a few manage to achieve this dream, which has cast a significant spotlight on elite soccer players who possess exceptional skills to rise above the rest. Originally, such attention was focused on their great physical abilities.
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November 2024
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Study Objectives: The "Zeigarnik effect" refers to the phenomenon where future intentions are remembered effectively only as long as they are not executed. This study investigates whether these intentions, which remain active during sleep, influence dream content.
Methods: After an adaptation night, each of the 19 participants (10 women and 9 men) received three different task plans in the evening before the experimental night, each describing how to perform specific tasks.
J Chin Film Stud
December 2024
Australian China Centre in the World, Australian National University, Building 188, Fellows Lane, ACT, 2601, Canberra, Australia.
This article discusses and explores acclaimed new media artist Huang Hsin-Chien's virtual reality (VR) experience (Shishenji, 2019). In this film, through the process of the body illusion or the body replacement program, a component specific to VR, viewers embody the soul of a political prisoner deceased during Taiwan's martial law era. juxtaposes Taiwan's traditional spiritual traditions with references to the Ghost Festival () and includes a dystopic vision of the future that appears towards the end of the film.
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December 2024
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA.
Robert Stickgold's research was among the earliest to rigorously quantify the effect of learning on dream content. As a result, we learned that dreaming is influenced by the activation of newly formed memory traces in the sleeping brain. Exactly how this happens is an ongoing area of investigation.
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