[PDF] The Neuropsychology Of Sleep And Dreaming eBook

Author : John S. Antrobus
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134764332

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This volume describes how the conceptual and technical sophistication of contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific fields has enhanced the neurocognitive understanding of dreaming sleep. Because it is the only naturally-occurring state in which the active brain produces elaborate cognitive processes in the absence of sensory input, the study of dreaming offers a unique cognitive and neurophysiological view of the production of higher cognitive processes. The theory and research included is driven by the search for the most direct relationships linking the neurophysiological characteristics of sleepers to their concurrent cognitive experiences. The search is organized around three sets of theoretical models and the three classes of neurocognitive relationships upon which they are based. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that the field has begun to move in new directions opened up by the rapid advances in contemporary cognitive science, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology.

Author : Mark Solms
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317780566

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In this book, Mark Solms chronicles a fascinating effort to systematically apply the clinico-anatomical method to the study of dreams. The purpose of the effort was to place disorders of dreaming on an equivalent footing with those of other higher mental functions such as the aphasias, apraxias, and agnosias. Modern knowledge of the neurological organization of human mental functions was grounded upon systematic clinico-anatomical investigations of these functions under neuropathological conditions. It therefore seemed reasonable to assume that equivalent research into dreaming would provide analogous insights into the cerebral organization of this important but neglected function. Accordingly, the main thrust of the study was to identify changes in dreaming that are systematically associated with focal cerebral pathology and to describe the clinical and anatomical characteristics of those changes. The goal, in short, was to establish a nosology of dream disorders with neuropathological significance. Unless dreaming turned out to be organized in a fundamentally different way than other mental functions, there was every reason to expect that this research would cast light on the cerebral organization of the normal dream process.

Author : Ken Howell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Dream interpretation
ISBN : 9780595372614

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Drs. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and the giants of dream psychology in last century missed the mark. Finally, we get the answers and the evidence about sleep and dreaming we have sought: \\*Why we and all animals sleep \*Why we dream and are they truly meaningful \*Why we forget some dreams and remember others \\Through these answer, we learn about brain evolution and structure, ADC (after-death-contact), telepathy, precognition, schizophrenia, and much more. Empirically, psychology of any sort without an underlying neurological structure as its progenitor is not possible. Dreams are not possible without the neurological structure we have evolved to support dreaming. This neurological perspective of dreaming is the basis for all the implications of dreams you will explore and discover through the Neuropsychology of the Dreaming Brain.\\Ken Howell is a member of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, International Association for the Study of Dreams, National Sleep Foundation, Human Behavior & Evolution Society, and Philadelphia Neuropsychology Society. He is the previously published author of The Dream Document and a retired CFO of a diverse medical facility and primary care medical group in Philadelphia. Ken currently moderates dream discussions at www.sleeps.com, provides dream translation services, and offers lectures based on his groundbreaking theories.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0192802151

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In this fascinating book, Harvard researcher Hobson offers an intriguing look at the nightly odyssey through the illusory world of dreams. Hobson describes how the theory of dreaming has advanced dramatically over the past 50 years, sparked by the use of EEGs in the 1950s and by recent innovations in brain imaging. 20 illustrations.

Author : Eric Nofzinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107018633

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An up-to-date, superbly illustrated practical guide to the effective use of neuroimaging in the patient with sleep disorders. The only book to date to provide comprehensive coverage of this topic. A must for all healthcare workers interested in understanding the causes, consequences and treatment of sleep disorders.

Author : Owen Flanagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2001-05-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019534958X

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What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. And in Dreaming Souls he provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, "free riders," irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Indeed, Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or to create meaning, even when we're sleeping. Rejecting Freud's theory of manifest and latent content--of repressed wishes appearing in disguised form--Flanagan shows how brainstem activity during sleep generates a jumbled profusion of memories, images, thoughts, emotions, and desires, which the cerebral cortex then attempts to shape into a more or less coherent story. Such dream-narratives range from the relatively mundane worries of non REM sleep to the fantastic confabulations of deep REM that resemble psychotic episodes in their strangeness. But however bizarre these narratives may be, they can shed light on our mental life, our well being, and our sense of self. Written with clarity, lively wit, and remarkable insight, Dreaming Souls offers a fascinating new way of apprehending one of the oldest mysteries of mental life.

Author : D. Cohen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1483293548

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Sleep and dreaming are manifestations in higher organisms of a fundamental 'circadian rhythm' of inactivity-activity. During the past thirty years, research has provided a great deal of new information about the phenomenom and phenomenology of sleep, and the relationship between sleep and wakefulness. This book aims to describe, organise and interpret some of this new knowledge in order to stimulate a greater appreciation of the role of sleep and dreaming in human adaptation. The study of sleep and dreaming provides a very special perspective on human functioning. It stands in direct contrast to more traditional paradigms utilised in psychology that place the locus of explanation of human behaviour in the 'external environment'

Author : Rosalind D. Cartwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199750890

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Leading sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright brings together decades of work on sleep, dreaming and sleep disorders to propose a new theory of how the mind works continuously. Drawing on her own research and that of others, Cartwright describes how conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings move forward--from waking, into sleep and dreaming, to the next waking day. One main purpose of sleep is to regulate disturbing emotions .Not everyone does this successfully every night. Her research on dreams of those suffering depression show these fail to regulate mood overnight, and when sleepwalkers behave aggressively they have not had enough time dreaming. With many case examples, the author illustrates how conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings are being linked to older memories throughout sleep and dreams, and how this process effects changes in thinking and feeling the next day--even reshaping our identities. The Twenty-four Hour Mind offers a unique integration of psychology and sleep research that will be of interest to anyone captivated by the mysteries of the mind--and what sleep and dreams teach us about ourselves.

Author : Jennifer M. Windt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262028670

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A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary consciousness studies. Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself. In Dreaming, Jennifer Windt lays the groundwork for solving this problem. She develops a conceptual framework describing not only what it means to say that dreams are conscious experiences but also how to locate dreams relative to such concepts as perception, hallucination, and imagination, as well as thinking, knowledge, belief, deception, and self-consciousness. Arguing that a conceptual framework must be not only conceptually sound but also phenomenologically plausible and carefully informed by neuroscientific research, Windt integrates her review of philosophical work on dreaming, both historical and contemporary, with a survey of the most important empirical findings. This allows her to work toward a systematic and comprehensive new theoretical understanding of dreaming informed by a critical reading of contemporary research findings. Windt's account demonstrates that a philosophical analysis of the concept of dreaming can provide an important enrichment and extension to the conceptual repertoire of discussions of consciousness and the self and raises new questions for future research.