[PDF] New Frontiers In Medicine Volume 1 Of 2 Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition eBook

Author : Gretchen Flammer
Publisher : Hayle Medical
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781632414755

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Medicine studies practices that diagnose, treat and prevent diseases and disorders. It is divided into many sub-branches like epidemiology, immunology, microbiology, pharmacology, pathology and physiology to name a few. This book discusses the fundamentals as well as modern approaches of medicine. It elaborates on the various crucial theories, concepts and applications of the subject. The topics covered in the text provide detailed insights into this field of medicine. It aims to present researches that have transformed this discipline and aided its advancement. For all those who are interested in medicine, this text can prove to be an essential guide.

Author : Robert G. Kunzendorf
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9027299935

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Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers with philosophical, psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience. It addresses some difficult but important issues in the study of consciousness, subconsciousness, and self-consciousness. The book’s fourteen chapters are written by renowned, pioneering researchers who, collectively, have published more than fifty books and more than one thousand journal articles. The editors’ introductory chapter frames the book’s subtext: that mind-brain theories embodying the constraints of individual differences in subjective experience should be given greater credence than nomothetic theories ignoring those constraints. The next five chapters describe research and theory pertaining to individual differences in conscious sensations — specifically, individual differences in pain perception, phantom limbs, gustatory sensations, and mental imagery. Then, two succeeding chapters focus on individual differences in subconsciousness. The final six chapters address individual differences in altered states of self-consciousness — dreams, hypnotic phenomena, and various clinical syndromes. (Series B)

Author : J. Gackenbach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1475704232

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A conscious mind in a sleeping brain: the title of this book provides a vivid image of the phenomenon of lucid dreaming, in which dreamers are consciously aware that they are dreaming while they seem to be soundly asleep. Lucid dreamers could be said to be awake to their inner worlds while they are asleep to the external world. Of the many questions that this singular phenomenon may raise, two are foremost: What is consciousness? And what is sleep? Although we cannot pro vide complete answers to either question here, we can at least explain the sense in which we are using the two terms. We say lucid dreamers are conscious because their subjective reports and behavior indicate that they are explicitly aware of the fact that they are asleep and dreaming; in other words, they are reflectively conscious of themselves. We say lucid dreamers are asleep primarily because they are not in sensory contact with the external world, and also because research shows physiological signs of what is conventionally considered REM sleep. The evidence presented in this book-preliminary as it is-still ought to make it clear that lucid dreaming is an experiential and physiological reality. Whether we should consider it a paradoxical form of sleep or a paradoxical form of waking or something else entirely, it seems too early to tell.

Author : Richard R. Bootzin
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781557980830

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Despite impressive advances in understanding sleep as a biological phenomenon and in understanding the nature of mental processes in the normal waking state, our knowledge of mental life during sleep remains extremely impoverished. The common identification of cognition with consciousness leaves the impression that little or no mental activity occurs during sleep. The present volume represents the Proceedings of the Arizona Conference on Sleep and Cognition, held in Tucson January 19-22, 1989. A principal concern of the conference was the implications of recent work on implicit memory and other aspects of information-processing outside of awareness for studies of cognitive processes during sleep, and the role of the sleep laboratory as a vehicle for studying various aspects of information processing outside of awareness, in the absence of the active deployment of attention. To this end, selected investigators in the area of sleep who have an interest in cognitive processes were brought together with their counterparts in the area of cognition who have an interest in sleep. We hope that one outcome of this meeting, and publication of the Proceedings, will be a new agenda for research on sleep that will carry investigators of both camps well into the 21st century.