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According to the results of a European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop, it may be that sleep therapy could help treat patients with psychosis. Experts have found that brain activity patterns in people dreaming are roughly the same ones that occur in psychosis episodes. Additionally, others have proposed over the years that a strong evolutionary correlation may exist between the two phenomena, and the scientists at the meeting have proposed that dreaming may be an efficient way to combat psychosis. “In the field of psychiatry, the interest in patients' dreams has progressively fallen out of both clinical practice and research. But this new work seems to show that we may be able to make comparisons between lucid dreaming and some psychiatric conditions that involve an abnormal dissociation of consciousness while awake, such as psychosis, depersonalization and pseudo-seizures,†Silvio Scarone, who holds an appointment at the Universita degli Studi di Milano, in Milan, I!
taly, explains. The experts underline the fact that lucid dreaming and psychosis are very similar. In the case of the former, people know they are awake, but are also aware that they are dreaming at the same time. This hybrid state of mind generates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the human cortex, which can be r...
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