title: Methodology in clinical sleep research.
abstract: This review presents traditional and cutting-edge interventions in sleep research, including descriptions of the relationship of rapid eye movement-non-rapid eye movement sleep with the autonomous nervous system, and dream research methodology. Although sleep and dreaming are overlapping and non- separable phenomena, they are not typically addressed simultaneously in the scientific sleep research literature. Therefore, a more extensive overview of dream research has been included with a focus on objective dream content analysis and the theory of neurocognitive analysis. A bridge is made between dream content analysis and current sleep research methodologies.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Sistemas e Robótica, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. acrosa@isr.ist.utl.pt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosa
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Poyares
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Moraes
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cintra
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D004325:Dreams / Q000187:drug effects; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D008568:Memory / Q000187:drug effects; D012890:Sleep / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives