Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep

Hobson, J. Allan

ISBN 10: 0192803042 / ISBN 13: 9780192803047

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2003

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• Titolo: Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0192803042
• ISBN 13: 9780192803047
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket.

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What is dreaming? What causes dreaming? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear and complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain.This picture is important not only for understanding dreaming itself, but also for a science of consciousness and of mental health and illness. This book focuses on dreaming to introduce the reader to sleep laboratory science and to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep. It shows how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis, and how it helps to understand the basis of mental illness.

Informazioni sull?autore

J. Allan Hobson is Director of the Neurophysiology and Sleep Laboratory and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Widely considered the world's leading expert on sleep research, he is the author of The Dreaming Brain, The Chemistry of Conscious States, Sleep, Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind, and Consciousness.