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Covert REM sleep effects on REM mentation: Further methodological considerations and supporting evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Tore A. Nielsen
Affiliation:
Sleep Research Center, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada and Psychiatry Department, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H4J 1C5 Canadat-nielsen@crhsc.umontreal.ca

Abstract

Whereas many researchers see a heuristic potential in the covert REM sleep model for explaining NREM sleep mentation and associated phenomena, many others are unconvinced of its value. At present, there is much circumstantial support for the model, but validation is lacking on many points. Supportive findings from several additional studies are summarized with results from two new studies showing (1) NREM mentation is correlated with duration of prior REM sleep, and (2) REM sleep signs (eye movements, phasic EMG) occur frequently in NREM sleep. The covert REM sleep model represents one class of explanatory models that combines the two assumptions of mind-body isomorphism and a 1-gen mentation generator; its future development will depend largely upon a more detailed understanding of sleep state interactions and their contribution to mind-body isomorphisms.

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