STUDY OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine whether insomnia symptoms and nightmares mediated the relation between alcohol use and suicide risk. Further, we examined whether this mediation was moderated by gender. DESIGN The study consisted of questionnaires administered online examining insomnia symptoms, nightmares, alcohol use, and suicide risk. SETTING University. PATIENT...

A particular challenge for undertaking urbanization mapping of Beirut is the absence of a unified understanding of the city. Migration, informal settlements, a lack of urban planning, political corruption, as well as internal conflict have made this task even harder. The population in Lebanon is unevenly distributed among regions, where one third of the population resides in the Greater Beirut ...

N are described as frightening dreams that usually awaken the sleeper from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. It is almost always a long, complicated dream that becomes increasingly frightening toward the end. The long, dreamlike feature is essential in making the clinical differentiation from sleep terror. The element of fright or anxiety is an essential part of the nightmare (1, p. 163). Nightma...

Nightmares are common, occurring weekly in 4%-10% of the population, and are associated with female gender, younger age, increased stress, psychopathology, and dispositional traits. Nightmare pathogenesis remains unexplained, as do differences between nontraumatic and posttraumatic nightmares (for those with or without posttraumatic stress disorder) and relations with waking functioning. No mod...

Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Hematopathology, and Department of Genomic Medicine, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Biological & Environmental Science, The University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of ...