PMID- 30319519 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230928 IS - 1664-1078 (Print) IS - 1664-1078 (Electronic) IS - 1664-1078 (Linking) VI - 9 DP - 2018 TI - Dream Recall Frequency Is Associated With Medial Prefrontal Cortex White-Matter Density. PG - 1856 LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01856 [doi] LID - 1856 AB - Recent findings indicate that dream recall frequency (DRF) is associated with neurophysiological traits, and notably the regional cerebral blood flow at rest within the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). To test whether, such physiological traits are rooted in anatomical specificities, we used voxel-based morphometry to compare the white matter and gray matter density in regions related to dream recall (either at the experimental or theoretical level, MPFC, TPJ, hippocampus and amygdala) between 46 high dream recallers (HR, DRF = 5.98 +/- 1.25 days per week with a dream report) and 46 low dream recallers (LR, DRF = 0.34 +/- 0.29). We found an increased medial prefrontal cortex white-matter density in HR compared to LR but no other significant difference between the two groups. These results are consistent with previous studies showing that lesions within the white matter of medial prefrontal cortex are associated with a partial or total cessation of dream reporting and suggest an implication of this region in dream recall or, more likely, in dream production. FAU - Vallat, Raphael AU - Vallat R AD - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team (DYCOG), INSERM UMRS 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France. FAU - Eichenlaub, Jean-Baptiste AU - Eichenlaub JB AD - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team (DYCOG), INSERM UMRS 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France. FAU - Nicolas, Alain AU - Nicolas A AD - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team (DYCOG), INSERM UMRS 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France. FAU - Ruby, Perrine AU - Ruby P AD - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team (DYCOG), INSERM UMRS 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180927 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Psychol JT - Frontiers in psychology JID - 101550902 PMC - PMC6171441 OTO - NOTNLM OT - DMN OT - MRI OT - amygdala OT - dream recall OT - dreaming OT - hippocampus OT - sleep OT - voxel-based morphometry EDAT- 2018/10/16 06:00 MHDA- 2018/10/16 06:01 PMCR- 2018/09/27 CRDT- 2018/10/16 06:00 PHST- 2018/07/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/09/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/10/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/10/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/10/16 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/09/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01856 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Psychol. 2018 Sep 27;9:1856. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01856. eCollection 2018.