The Dreaming Brain
How the Brain Create Both the Sense and the Nonsense of Dreams
Published on 2. October 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-465-01702-7 (ISBN)
Description
A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and neuroscientist shows how dream science draws on psychology and neurobiology to provide new insight into the nature of the human mind.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
547 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-01702-7 (9780465017027)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
J. Allan Hobson is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the labouratory of Neurophysiology, Massachusetts Mental Health centre.
Content
* Introduction: A Brain-Based Approach to Dreaming Early Dream Science * The Study of Dreaming in the Nineteenth Century * Psychoanalysis and Dreaming * Dream Investigation in the Early Twentieth Century Dreaming And Neurobiology * A Spark of Natures Fire: The Electrical Brain * The Regulation of Consciousness by the Brain Stem * The Discovery of REM Sleep and Dreaming A New Model Of The Dreaming Brain * A Window on the Brain: Neural Activity * A War of Nerves: The Reciprocal-Interaction Model of REM-Sleep Generation * The Brain as a Dream Machine: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of Dreaming Dream Form: The Journal Of The Engine Man * The Form of Dreams * The Form of Dream Sensation * The Form of Dream Movement * The Bizarreness of Dreams * The Interpretation of Dream Form The Future Of Dream Science * The Functions of REM Sleep and Dreaming