Electric jolt summons up old dreams

• Autores: Penny Sarchet
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3169, 2018, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People with epilepsy sometimes recall old dreams during seizures--an experience called déjà-rêvé. Now a study has found that stimulating a particular part of the brain can trigger this too. Jonathan Curot of Toulouse University Hospital, France, and his colleagues collected examples of déjà-rêvé from 30 people with epilepsy who reported experiencing this phenomenon while undergoing electrical brain stimulation to assess which regions of their brain are involved in their seizures. Altogether, they found evidence for 42 instances of déjà-rêvé. Analyzing these revealed that they were all triggered by stimulation of a particular part of the brain--the temporal lobe, which is involved in long-term memory, dreaming and forming memories during sleep