The dreaming brain/mind, consciousness and psychosis |
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Authors: | Limosani Ivan D'Agostino Armando Manzone Maria Laura Scarone Silvio |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Mental Health, San Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy;bDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy |
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Abstract: | Several independent lines of research in neurobiology seem to support the phenomenologically-grounded view of the dreaming brain/mind as a useful model for psychosis. Hallucinatory phenomena and thought disorders found in psychosis share several peculiarities with dreaming, where internally generated, vivid sensorimotor imagery along with often heightened and incongruous emotion are paired with a decrease in ego functions which ultimately leads to a severe impairment in reality testing. Contemporary conceptualizations of severe mental disorders view psychosis as one psychopathological dimension that may be found across several diagnostic categories. Some experimental data have shown cognitive bizarreness to be equally elevated in dreams and in the waking cognition of acutely psychotic subjects and in patients treated with pro-dopaminergic drugs, independent of the underlying disorder. Further studies into the neurofunctional underpinnings of both conditions will help to clarify the use and validity of this model. |
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Keywords: | Dreaming Psychosis Consciousness Phenomenology Model Schizophrenia Bipolar Disorder Bizarreness |
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