The majority of adults experience at least once yearly nightmares – intensely negative dreams that cause distress on awakening. 2-5% of adults experiences nightmares on a weekly basis, and this can be ...

Guided imagery is a relaxation technique that involves dwelling on a positive mental image or scene. It is a tool that psychotherapists use, but a person can also teach it to themselves and use it at ...

Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience, including functional brain-imaging techniques, have shown that mental imagery makes use of much the same neural substrates as perception in the same sensory ...