Sunday, October 22, 2006

dreaming = schizophrenia ??

This article is about a research that was conducted in France. The research was based on the hypotheses that the neurophysiology of a person dreaming is the same as that of a schizophrenic. After applying all the controls, this hypothesis was found to be true !!!
“The rapid eye movement dreaming sleep stage and schizophrenia are both characterized by common intracerebral disconnections, disturbed responsiveness and sensory deafferentation processes. Moreover, in both states, there is dorsolateral prefrontal deactivation as shown by the decrease of blood flow. Finally, identical pharmacological and neurochemical variations are observed for acetylcholine, dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin and glutamate concentrations.”

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0F-4JVT1WM-4&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2006&_alid=472560375&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=4861&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000049198&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=952835&md5=5347bc8b9b7bc568bee793bc7926da69

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