Active reward processing during human sleep: insights from sleep-related eating disorder

Active reward processing during human sleep: insights from sleep-related eating disorder

In this paper, we present two carefully documented cases of patients with sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), a parasomnia which is characterized by involuntary compulsive eating during the night and whose pathophysiology is not known. Using video-polysomnography and psychometric examination, we f...

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Main Authors: Lampros ePerogamvros, Roland eHasler, Patrick eBaud, Claude Robert Cloninger, Sophie eSchwartz, Stephen ePerrig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
Parasomnias
Sleep
dreaming
reward processing
sleep-related eating disorder
mesolimbic dopaminergic system
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2012.00168/full

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