{"id":28930,"date":"2019-06-21T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=28930"},"modified":"2019-05-29T01:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:54:19","slug":"sleep-study-advances-understanding-of-emotions-experienced-during-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/06\/sleep-study-advances-understanding-of-emotions-experienced-during-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep study advances understanding of emotions experienced during dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\">Researchers have identified a <strong>pattern of brain activity that predicts anger experienced during dreaming<\/strong>, according to a new study of healthy adults published in\u00a0<em>JNeurosci<\/em>. The research could potentially inform efforts to understand the <strong>neural basis of the emotional content of nightmares<\/strong>, a feature of various mental and sleep disorders.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p>Although emotions are experienced during both waking and dreaming, few studies have investigated the brain mechanisms underlying the affective component of dreams. Pilleriin Sikka and colleagues at University of Turku, University of Sk\u00f6vde, and University of Cambridge discovered a shared emotional mechanism between the two states of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers obtained electroencephalography recordings from participants during two separate nights in a sleep laboratory. After five-minute bouts of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, participants were awoken and asked to describe their dream and rate the emotions they experienced in the dream. Individuals who displayed greater alpha-band brain activity in the right, as compared to the left, frontal cortex during evening wakefulness and during REM sleep experienced more anger in dreams. This neural signature &#8212; called <strong>frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) &#8212; has been linked to anger and self-regulation during wakefulness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Together, these results suggest <strong>FAA may reflect a universal indicator of emotion regulation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Researchers have identified a pattern of brain activity that predicts anger experienced during dreaming, according to a new study of healthy adults published&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/06\/sleep-study-advances-understanding-of-emotions-experienced-during-dreaming\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,43],"tags":[265,42,122,93,362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29519,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28930\/revisions\/29519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}