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.
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).
Show moreWhat 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.
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).
Show more1: 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
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).
`Review from previous edition '...engaging new book...'
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Robert Matthews, The Sunday Telegraph
`'A short introduction to the science of dreaming that examines
succinctly questions about the function, activation and
interpretation of dreams as well as investigating the relationships
between dreaming, learning, memory and consciousness. And there are
more than a few eye-openers as Hobson lays bare the secrets of a
process that has both fascinated and mystified man for
centuries.'
'
Northern Echo
`'for the excitement of science at the frontiers of consciousness
theory and research, Allan Hobson's book is warmly
recommended.''
Times Literary Supplement
`'an enlightening book that will provide much food for thought in
anyone who reads it.''
Good Book Guide
`'a cool outline of modern knowledge about dreams''
New Scientist
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