Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani

This study investigates how nocturnal awakenings influence dream recall, finding that specific awakening characteristics, not just frequency, affect different types of dream recall.

This paper introduces fractal cycles as a new definition of sleep cycles based on fractal neural activity, showing correlations with classical cycles and differences across age groups and depression states.

This study tests a combined sensory and cognitive approach to induce lucid dreaming, finding higher rates of signal-verified lucid dreams with sensory cues compared to sham conditions.

The paper validates a wearable PSG system, ZMax, comparing its sleep scoring and metrics to standard PSG, finding moderate to substantial agreement with human scorers.