#748 Studying dreams in and out of the sleep lab with Tore Nielsen PhD

May 05, 2021, 07:25 PM

Tore Nielsen PhD Professor of Psychiatry & Addictology, U Montréal; Director, the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory. Dr. Nielsen studies dreaming from primarily neuroscientific and phenomenological perspectives. His current projects concern: sleep onset micro-dreaming, dreaming’s role in learning/memory/emotion, pandemic dreaming and nightmare pathophysiology. His research methods include: introspection, polysomnography, targeted memory reactivation, cognitive and personality testing, REM sleep deprivation, EEG/ECG spectral analysis, VR exposure, internet-based dream collection, and text-mining.

http://www.dreamscience.ca/2020

Scientific American Article on Covid Changing Our Dreams (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-changing-our-dreams/)

Tore Nielsen PhD Professor of Psychiatry & Addictology, U Montréal; Director, the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory. Dr. Nielsen studies dreaming from primarily neuroscientific and phenomenological perspectives. His current projects concern: sleep onset micro-dreaming, dreaming’s role in learning/memory/emotion, pandemic dreaming and nightmare pathophysiology. His research methods include: introspection, polysomnography, targeted memory reactivation, cognitive and personality testing, REM sleep deprivation, EEG/ECG spectral analysis, VR exposure, internet-based dream collection, and text-mining.
Scientific American Article on Covid Changing Our Dreams
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