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Nightmares share strong genetic risk with sleep and psychiatric disorders
2019-11-09
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Nightmares are vivid, extended and extremely dysphoric dreams that awaken the dreamer. Twin studies indicate that nightmare frequency has a heritability between 36 and 51% providing evidence for genetic factors underlying predisposition to nightmares. Furthermore, while cross-sectional epidemiological findings suggest that heavy alcohol usage, traumatic experiences and psychiatric diseases assoc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e2b9eb02-3185-507f-904f-eb2d25e8d9c6
- DOI
- 10.1101/836452