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Paradoxical sleep and schizophrenia have the same neurobiological support
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2005
Abstract:
During the paradoxical dreaming sleep stage, characterized by hallucinations and delusions, as in schizophrenia, the increased subcortical release of dopamine, the presynaptic inhibition of thalamic relay nuclei, and serotonergic disinhibition are in accordance with the model for the mechanism of hallucination-induction.
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