Dreaming An Introduction to the Science of Sleep |
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| Author:
| Hobson, J. Allan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-280482-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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What is dreaming? What causes dreaming? Why are dreams so strange and often so 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 the reader to sleep laboratory science and to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep. It explores how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis and the ways in which this helps to understand the basic mechanisms of mental illness.
What is dreaming? What causes dreaming? Why are dreams so strange and often so 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 the reader to sleep laboratory science and to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep. It explores how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis and the ways in which this helps to understand the basic mechanisms of mental illness.