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Zusatztext Fascinating. Informationen zum Autor J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Sleep Research Society in 1988. His major research interests are the neurophysiological basis of the mind and behaviour; sleep and dreaming; and the history of neurology and psychiatry, with his most recent work focusing on the cognitive features and benefits of sleep. He is the author or co-author of many books, including: The Dreaming Brain (1988), Sleep (1995), Consciousness (1999), Dreaming as Delirium: How the brain goes out of its mind (1999), The Dream Drugstore (2001), and Out of its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis (2001). Klappentext What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and often hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. This book introduces sleep laboratory science, the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep, and explores how the science of dreaming impacts our understanding of psychoanalysis and mental illness. Zusammenfassung What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and often hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. This book introduces sleep laboratory science, the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep, and explores how the science of dreaming impacts our understanding of psychoanalysis and mental illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: What is dreaming? 2: Why dream content analysis failed to become a science 3: How is the brain activated in sleep? 4: Cells and molecules of the dreaming brain 5: Why dream? The functions of brain activation in sleep 6: Disorders of dreaming 7: Dreaming as delirium: sleep and mental illness 8: The new neuropsychology of dreaming 9: Dreaming, learning and memory 10: Dream consciousness 11: The interpretation of dreams Conclusion ...
