Limits of Dream - A Scientific Exploration of the Mind / Brain Interface

Informationen zum Autor JF Pagel has authored more than 170 publications. His basic research addressed the electrophysiology of consciousness, the neurochemistry of sleep and dream, and the role of REM sleep in learning and memory. His clinical work includes proofs for non-dreaming and the requirement of sleep for dream and nightmare, the diagnostic code for nightmare disorder, a definition protocol for dream, and demonstrations that REM sleep and dreaming are doubly dissociable. He has developed approaches to treating insomnia, sleep & altitude, narcolepsy, pediatric parasomnias, and waking somnolence, as well as addressing dream and nightmare use in trauma, art, creativity and filmmaking. He is co-editor of one of the major sleep-medicine texts: Primary Care Sleep Disorders (2007/ 2014). His books include: The Limits of Dream – A Scientific Exploration of the Mind /Brain Interface (2007), Dreaming and Nightmares (ed.) (2010), and Dream Science – Exploring the Forms of Consciousness (2014). Klappentext Approx.250 pagesFocuses on what we know of the human central nervous system (CNS), examining the basic sciences of neurochemisty, neuroanatomy, and CNS electrophysiology as these sciences apply to dream, then reaching beyond basic science to examine the cognitive science of dreaming including the processes of memory, the perceptual interface, and visual imagery. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Body/Mind Dreams as Windows But, Is REM Sleep Dreaming? The Event Horizon The Limits of DreamSection 1 Definitions and the Search for Truth Chapter 2 Mind/Plato's Cave Descartes Limits of the Cartesian Perspective What is Mind? Definitions Psychoanalytic Approaches Alternative Perspectives Chapter 3 A Dream can be Gazpacho DefinitionsSection 2 The Biological Substrate of Dream Chapter 4 The Neuroanatomy of Dreaming The Neuroanatomy of REMS The Neuropathology of Dreaming The Neuroanatomy of Dreaming Chapter 5 The Neurochemistry of Dreaming REMS Neurochemistry Medications Affecting Sleep Medications Affecting Dreaming Primary Neurotransmitters Affecting Sleep and Dreaming Acetylcholine Norepinephrine Serotonin Dopamine GABA Neurotransmitter Modulating Systems Dreaming and Nightmares: Neurotransmitter Systems Agents Affecting Conscious Interaction with the Environment Anesthetics Agents Affecting Host Defense The Neurochemistry of Dreams and Nightmares Chapter 6 The Electrophysiology of Dreaming The EEG Functional Roles for CNS Electrical Fields Evidence for a Functioning Extracellular Electrical System in the CNS Drug Effects Disease States The Electrophysiology of Dreams Chapter 7 The Complexity of Dreams: Neural networks and Consciousness Biological Applications of Neural Net Theories The Dreams of Neural Networks Complexity of the Biologic System The Limits of Dream Structure The Neurological Substrate of DreamSection 3 Studying the Cognitive Substrate of Dreaming Chapter 8 Dreams and Sleep: The Substrate Hypothesis Dream Recall in Insomnia Insomnia and Nightmare Recall Frequency The Association Between Sleep and Mind Chapter 9 Dreaming and Memory Memory and Dreams Imagery and Intrinsic Memory Dream Recall Dream content EveryDay Memory and Mind Dream Use Memory and Mind Chapter The Brain/Computer Interface Intelligence Artificial Intelligence The Perceptual Interface The Motor Interface Computation and Thought ...

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AcknowledgementsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Body/Mind Dreams as Windows But, Is REM Sleep Dreaming? The Event Horizon The Limits of DreamSection 1 Definitions and the Search for Truth Chapter 2 Mind/Plato's Cave Descartes Limits of the Cartesian Perspective What is Mind? Definitions Psychoanalytic Approaches Alternative Perspectives Chapter 3 A Dream can be Gazpacho DefinitionsSection 2 The Biological Substrate of Dream Chapter 4 The Neuroanatomy of Dreaming The Neuroanatomy of REMS The Neuropathology of Dreaming The Neuroanatomy of Dreaming Chapter 5 The Neurochemistry of Dreaming REMS Neurochemistry Medications Affecting Sleep Medications Affecting Dreaming Primary Neurotransmitters Affecting Sleep and Dreaming Acetylcholine Norepinephrine Serotonin Dopamine GABA Neurotransmitter Modulating Systems Dreaming and Nightmares: Neurotransmitter Systems Agents Affecting Conscious Interaction with the Environment Anesthetics Agents Affecting Host Defense The Neurochemistry of Dreams and Nightmares Chapter 6 The Electrophysiology of Dreaming The EEG Functional Roles for CNS Electrical Fields Evidence for a Functioning Extracellular Electrical System in the CNS Drug Effects Disease States The Electrophysiology of Dreams Chapter 7 The Complexity of Dreams: Neural networks and Consciousness Biological Applications of Neural Net Theories The Dreams of Neural Networks Complexity of the Biologic System The Limits of Dream Structure The Neurological Substrate of DreamSection 3 Studying the Cognitive Substrate of Dreaming Chapter 8 Dreams and Sleep: The Substrate Hypothesis Dream Recall in Insomnia Insomnia and Nightmare Recall Frequency The Association Between Sleep and Mind Chapter 9 Dreaming and Memory Memory and Dreams Imagery and Intrinsic Memory Dream Recall Dream content EveryDay Memory and Mind Dream Use Memory and Mind Chapter The Brain/Computer Interface Intelligence Artificial Intelligence The Perceptual Interface The Motor Interface Computation and Thought Communication Problem Solving The Capabilities of Artificial SystemsSection 4 The Cognitive Process of Dreaming Chapter 11 Emotions and Dream Frightening Dreams Emotions and Dreaming Emotions and Mind Emotional Dreaming Chapter 12 Exploring the Visual Interface Visual Consciousness The Visual Representation of Space Imagery Dream Imagery Artificial Dream Imagery - Filmmaking Visual Components of Dreaming Chapter 13 Thinking and Dreaming Thinking in Dreams Bizarreness in Dreams Associative Thought in Dreams The Neurological Basis of Thought Thinking and the MindSection 5 The Cognitive Organization of Dreaming What we know The Formal Structure of Dreaming Chapter 14 Hallucinations and Dreams Dream-Like Phenomena Parasomnias and Unusual Dreams Are Dreams Hallucinations? Chapter 15 Dreaming and Storytelling The Narrative Structure of Thought The Mythic Structure of Story Dreams in Literature Dreams in Screenplay The Limits of Dream Imagery The Power of the Story Chapter 16 Film: The Projected Dream Moving Pictures The Visual Language of Film Visual Imagery and Film Apparatus Theory F

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"Jim Pagel's The Limits of Dream delves into the scientific, philosophical, creative and psychological aspects of this very human phenomenon and manages to be both coherent and consistently interesting. The only other book I've read about dreams told you how to play the horses." --John Sayles, Director, Writer, and Actor"This wonderfully creative book, based on the author's many original studies of sleep and dreams, as well as his masterful knowledge the relevant fields in neuroscience, provides us with a new theory of dreaming as well as a devastating critique of the highly visible but simplistic neurophysiological theories of dreams that have been on the stage for all too long." --G. William Domhoff, Research Professor in Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz"This marvelous book starts from research neuropsychology and blazes on into the intricate beauty and creativities of dream phenomenology and cognition, and all that bridging into film as dream and dream as film. Its breadth and philosophical sophistication are unique in dream studies. It is a major achievement." --Harry T. Hunt, Psychology, Brock University"Dr. Pagel is an extremely well regarded researcher in both the worlds of sleep and of dreams. What he is proposing is quite unique and could be an important "bridging" book between these two domains who have unfortunately had a previous relationship somewhat analogous to one of being water and oil." --Bob van de Castle, University of Virginia Medical Center and former president of the Association for the Study of Dreams

Product details

• Authors: J F Pagel, J. F. Pagel, J. F. (University of Colorado Pagel, James Pagel, Jim Pagel, Pagel J. F.
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780123742155
• ISBN: 978-0-12-374215-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, Sleep & dreams