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Neurotransmitter mechanisms of dreaming: Implication of modulatory systems based on dream intensity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

E. K. Perry  and
M. A. Piggott
E. K. Perry
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Neurochemical Pathology Unit, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, United [email protected]
M. A. Piggott
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Neurochemical Pathology Unit, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, United [email protected]
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Abstract

Based on increasing dream intensity and alterations in neurophysiological activity from waking, through NREM to REM sleep, dreaming appears to correlate with sustained midbrain dopaminergic and basal forebrain cholinergic, in conjunction with decreasing brainstem 5-HT and noradrenergic neuronal activities. This, model, with features in common with the modulatory transmitter models of Hobson et al. and Solms, is consistent with some clinical observations on drug induced alterations in dreaming and transmitter correlates of delusions.

[Hobson et al.; Solms]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 990 - 992
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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