Research Article
Dream Recall Frequencies and Dream Content in Wilson’s Disease with and without REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder: A Neurooneirologic Study
Table 4
Dream content analysis of aggressive themes; WD with RBD versus WD without RBD (mean ± SD and percentages).
| | Wilson’s disease with RBD | Wilson’s disease without RBD | WD + RBD versus WD − RBD
| Effect size |
| Female/male | 4/0 | 8/14 | 0.19 | 0.976 | Dream reports per patient [] | 4.50 ± 2.65 | 4.27 ± 2.00 | ns | 0.098 | Word count per dream report [] | 69.90 ± 31.47 | 66.83 ± 43.87 | ns | 0.080 | Positive emotions (self-rating) [0–3] | 0.98 ± 0.90 | 1.51 ± 0.96 | ns | −0.570 | Negative emotions (self-rating) [0–3] | 2.58 ± 0.52 | 1.03 ± 1.02 | 0.031 | 1.915 | Positive emotions (external judge) [0–3] | 0.48 ± 0.36 | 0.53 ± 0.70 | ns | −0.090 | Negative emotions (external judge) [0–3] | 1.25 ± 0.64 | 0.58 ± 0.63 | 0.081 | 1.055 | Dreams with verbal aggression towards others [] | 0.50 ± 0.58 | 0.27 ± 0.55 | ns | 0.406 | Dreams with verbal aggression towards dream ego [] | 1.00 ± 0.82 | 0.05 ± 0.21 | 0.021 | 1.587 | Dreams with physical aggression towards others [] | 0 | 0.05 ± 0.21 | ns | −0.337 | Dreams with physical aggression towards dream ego [] | 0.75 ± 1.50 | 0.18 ± 0.40 | ns | 0.519 | Dreams with verbal and physical aggression towards dream ego [] | 1.50 ± 1.29 | 0.23 ± 0.43 | 0.048 | 1.321 | Dreams with aggression, total [] | 1.75 ± 0.96 | 0.46 ± 0.67 | 0.016 | 1.558 |
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WD + RBD: Wilson’s disease with REM sleep behaviour disorder; WD − RBD: Wilson’s disease without REM sleep behaviour disorder.
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