Hi , As we know the bioelectric scientists can stimulate different kinds of senses like perception and vision in patients and also can eliminate senses such as pain and pruritus.
Now my question is: does it possible for scientists to make stimulations in CNS of patients with nightmares in order to cure their nightmare and making desired dreams?
thanks for you attention,
The following articles may have relevant literature, but I don't believe the field has reached that stage:
Investigation of dream reports after transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCs) during slow wave sleep (SWS).
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1479-8425.2012.00538.x
By Jakobson, Antonia J.; Fitzgerald, Paul B; Conduit, Russell
Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Vol 10(3), Jul 2012, 169-178.
Despite being a prominent feature of REM sleep, dreams have also been reported from NREM sleep. Neuroimaging studies have revealed regional patterns of brain activation and deactivation during REM and NREM sleep, with frontal and posterior parietal cortices implicated as brain regions involved in dreaming. From our recent stage 2 study it was revealed that tDCs of these brain regions during this stage of sleep resulted in an increase in reported dream imagery. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of simultaneous anodal and cathodal tDCs applied to the right posterior parietal and frontal cortex (respectively) during SWS on dream recall. After 60 s of continuous SWS, participants were administered either tDCs, low tDCs, or blank control, followed by a 60 s delay period to confirm SWS before waking the participant for dream report collection. These conditions were administered in a counterbalanced order across the night. Analyses revealed no significant difference between conditions in the three dream measures. However, an analysis of visualizable nouns to total words revealed a significantly higher ratio in the low tDCs condition compared to the tDCs condition. It was concluded that tDCs had no appreciable effect on reported dream imagery. However, such findings are preliminary as they are from a research protocol which is in the process of refinement with more definitive results expected in future. Thus, further studies should now investigate the application of tDCs using improved methodologies and to other cortical regions implicated in the process of dreaming. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Treatment with AC pulsed electromagnetic fields induces vivid colored dreams in multiple sclerosis.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00207459808986456
By Sandyk, Reuven
International Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 96(1-2), Oct 1998, 45-52.
Describes the cases of 2 women, aged 33 and 41 yrs, with multiple sclerosis (MS) in whom transcranial alternating current pulsed applications of electromagnetic fields of 7.5 picotesla flux density restored dream recall and induced 4 to 5 mo later vivid colored dreams typically associated with REM sleep. Melatonin (MT) has been reported to increase the amount and duration of REM sleep, decrease REM sleep latency, and additionally induce vivid colored dreams in normal Ss and narcoleptic patients (e.g., M. Mirmiran and P. Pevet, 1986). Since nocturnal MT secretion is diminished in MS patients who also demonstrate a high incidence of calcification of the pineal gland (R. Sandyk and G. I. Awerbuch, 1991, 1992, 1993), it may partly explain why the disease is associated with disruption of the dream process and/or its recall, and also with loss of colored dream imagery. Therefore, it is possible that in these patients, the experience of vivid colored dreams during the course of magnetic therapy, which affects MT production, was related, at least in part, to enhanced nocturnal MT secretion. The recurrence of colored dreams coincided with a period of distinctive improvement in visual symptoms, suggesting a relationship between colored dream experiences and visual symptom improvement in MS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
The following articles may have relevant literature, but I don't believe the field has reached that stage:
Investigation of dream reports after transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCs) during slow wave sleep (SWS).
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1479-8425.2012.00538.x
By Jakobson, Antonia J.; Fitzgerald, Paul B; Conduit, Russell
Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Vol 10(3), Jul 2012, 169-178.
Despite being a prominent feature of REM sleep, dreams have also been reported from NREM sleep. Neuroimaging studies have revealed regional patterns of brain activation and deactivation during REM and NREM sleep, with frontal and posterior parietal cortices implicated as brain regions involved in dreaming. From our recent stage 2 study it was revealed that tDCs of these brain regions during this stage of sleep resulted in an increase in reported dream imagery. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of simultaneous anodal and cathodal tDCs applied to the right posterior parietal and frontal cortex (respectively) during SWS on dream recall. After 60 s of continuous SWS, participants were administered either tDCs, low tDCs, or blank control, followed by a 60 s delay period to confirm SWS before waking the participant for dream report collection. These conditions were administered in a counterbalanced order across the night. Analyses revealed no significant difference between conditions in the three dream measures. However, an analysis of visualizable nouns to total words revealed a significantly higher ratio in the low tDCs condition compared to the tDCs condition. It was concluded that tDCs had no appreciable effect on reported dream imagery. However, such findings are preliminary as they are from a research protocol which is in the process of refinement with more definitive results expected in future. Thus, further studies should now investigate the application of tDCs using improved methodologies and to other cortical regions implicated in the process of dreaming. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Treatment with AC pulsed electromagnetic fields induces vivid colored dreams in multiple sclerosis.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00207459808986456
By Sandyk, Reuven
International Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 96(1-2), Oct 1998, 45-52.
Describes the cases of 2 women, aged 33 and 41 yrs, with multiple sclerosis (MS) in whom transcranial alternating current pulsed applications of electromagnetic fields of 7.5 picotesla flux density restored dream recall and induced 4 to 5 mo later vivid colored dreams typically associated with REM sleep. Melatonin (MT) has been reported to increase the amount and duration of REM sleep, decrease REM sleep latency, and additionally induce vivid colored dreams in normal Ss and narcoleptic patients (e.g., M. Mirmiran and P. Pevet, 1986). Since nocturnal MT secretion is diminished in MS patients who also demonstrate a high incidence of calcification of the pineal gland (R. Sandyk and G. I. Awerbuch, 1991, 1992, 1993), it may partly explain why the disease is associated with disruption of the dream process and/or its recall, and also with loss of colored dream imagery. Therefore, it is possible that in these patients, the experience of vivid colored dreams during the course of magnetic therapy, which affects MT production, was related, at least in part, to enhanced nocturnal MT secretion. The recurrence of colored dreams coincided with a period of distinctive improvement in visual symptoms, suggesting a relationship between colored dream experiences and visual symptom improvement in MS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
@ Najmeh Amirkhan
Is that a serious question?
What is your educational/professional background?
This is supposed to be a scientific forum, not for scifi.
PS: there are a lot of strange questions from people of Amirkabir University of Technology - what is going on there?
The research of Hendrika Vande Kemp is interesting, but tDC will never lead to specific dreams. The whole question is fancy.
@Herwing Lange
Hi Mr. Lange and thanks for your attention to my question,
Before anything I should say that it's very marvelous for me that a high educated person like you mocks the question of a curious student and call it fancy.
In addition I have a course in this semester that is about neurosciences and I JUST excited to know if anyone works in this topic or not..
At last I should say it's not strange that students of Amirkabir University of Technology ask strange questions because they are very diligent in obtaining knowledge
Any way thanks for taking the time on my question.
a question like yours shows a total lack of basic knowledge about the brain. How about taking some basic classes or read some textbooks on the subject?
Dear Najmeh, you may be interested in the following paper, in which electrical stimulation of the temporal cortex led to very specific experiential phenomena (as hearing the theme of the cartoon The Flinstones or the voice of a baseball announcer):
Human “memories” can be evoked by stimulation of the lateral temporal cortex after ipsilateral medial temporal lobe resection, Moriarity et al., 2001 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11561047)
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