ReScript – Center for Mind and Culture

Modeling Dreams, Research Reports

Tracking our research on VR therapy for nightmare disorders

CMAC has been developing a novel program to help those suffering from Chronic Nightmare Disorder. Led by Dr. Patrick McNamara, our Rescript team uses Oculus Rift virtual reality technology to manipulate upsetting or nightmare-inducing imagery. Individuals use the Oculus Rift…

Mabel Bassi
October 28, 2021
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A Neurocomputational Theory of Nightmares: The role of formal properties of nightmare images

Patrick McNamara, Wesley J Wildman, George Hodulik, David Rohr SLEEP Advances Study Objectives: To test and extend Levin & Nielsen’s (2007) Affective Network Dysfunction (AND) model with nightmare disorder (ND) image characteristics, and then to implement the extension as a computational simulation, the…

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July 15, 2021