• Association between recurrent dreams, disturbing dreams and suicidal ideation in adolescents 

    Gauchat, Aline; Zadra, Antonio; El Hourani, Mira; Parent, Sophie; Renaud, Johanne; Tremblay, Richard Ernest; Séguin, Jean (American Psychological Association, 2021)
    Disturbing dreams and recurrent dreams have both been linked to a wide range of psychological difficulties in children. There is growing evidence that the experience of frequent disturbing dreams is associated with suicidal ideation in adults but studies ...
  • The content of recurrent dreams in young adolescents 

    Gauchat, Aline; Séguin, Jean; McSween-Cadieux, Esther; Zadra, Antonio (Elsevier, 2015-12)
    Studies on children’s recurrent dreams have been largely anecdotal and based on adults’ recollections of dreams experienced during childhood. We collected 102 reports of recurrent dreams from a sample of young adolescents aged between 11 and 15 years ...
  • EEG functional connectivity prior to sleepwalking : evidence of interplay between sleep and wakefulness 

    Desjardins, Marie-Ève; Carrier, Julie; Lina, Jean-Marc; Fortin, Maxime; Gosselin, Nadia; Montplaisir, Jacques-Yves; Zadra, Antonio (Oxford University Press, 2017-04-01)
    Study Objectives: Although sleepwalking (somnambulism) affects up to 4% of adults, its pathophysiology remains poorly understood. Sleepwalking can be preceded by fluctuations in slow-wave sleep EEG signals, but the significance of these pre-episode ...
  • Sleep deprivation reveals altered brain perfusion patterns in somnambulism 

    Dang-Vu, Thien Thanh; Zadra, Antonio; Labelle, Marc-Antoine; Petit, Dominique; Soucy, Jean-Paul; Montplaisir, Jacques-Yves (Public Library of Science, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: Despite its high prevalence, relatively little is known about the pathophysiology of somnambulism. Increasing evidence indicates that somnambulism is associated with functional abnormalities during wakefulness and that sleep deprivation ...