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Dream life : an experimental memoir / J. Allan Hobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobson, J. Allan, 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neuroscientists--Biography.
- Neuroscientists.
- Dreams.
- Dream interpretation.
- Rapid eye movement sleep.
- Consciousness.
- Hobson, J. Allan, 1933-.
- Hobson, J. Allan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work through the lens of dreaming and consciousness.
- Contents:
- Biologically speaking: an experimental autobiography
- Brain birth: a non-immaculate conception
- Brain growth: the illusion and reality of being a self
- Brain state: a self organizing process
- My experimental nature
- The genesis of my experimentalism
- Marginal modes of being
- Experimental social structures
- The nature of my experiments
- Psychoanalysis as thesis
- Brain science as antithesis
- Cognitive neuroscience as synthesis
- Experiments of nature
- Brain shock
- Brain death
- Heart failure
- Back ache
- Sleep strangulation
- Implications of my experiments
- Scientific
- Humanistic
- Philosophical
- Functional conclusions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11914-5
- 9786613119148
- 0-262-29559-8
- OCLC:
- 727944957
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