Delirium Tremens and Dreaming

RAMON GREENBERG and CHESTER PEARLMANAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.2.133

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A study of patients receiving alcohol and patients withdrawn from alcohol showed that increasing levels of alcoholism suppressed dreaming. Withdrawal led consistently to an increase in Stage I-REM sleep, with 100 percent Stage I being found just before development of delirium tremens. A rationale for treatment based on these findings is proposed.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124 • Number 2 • August 1967

Pages: 133 - 142

PubMed: 4378114

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Published in print: August 1967

Published online: 1 April 2006

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RAMON GREENBERG

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CHESTER PEARLMAN

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Staff Psychiatrist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02130, and Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine

Resident in psychiatry, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass.

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