The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-Anatomical Study (Institute for Research in Behavioral Neuroscience)
Author: Mark Solms, Marc Solms
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ISBN: 0805815856
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc (March, 1997)
Sales Rank: 425,642
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Best ever book on neuroscience and human dreaming
This book is the first definitive investigation of the neurological basis of dreaming in humans. In a brilliant review of the world literature, it re-organises the main categories of neurological dream disorder (especially the surprisingly common loss of dreams, given the new name: 'anoneira'). It also details the results of the investigation of several hundred patients who have a wide range of brain lesions, and shows that site of lesion is systematically correlated with particular changes in dreaming. Most importantly, it demonstrates that the neurological basis of dreams is NOT the same as that of REM sleep - overthowing several decades of sleep-research dogma. The link between REM and dreams had previously been used to argue that dreams must be 'random mental noise' and without meaning, but this result undercuts this argument. In the final chapter Solms offers a model of the neurological basis of the normal dream process, which has clear implications for various dream theories (eg Freud's). The book also introduces a scientific method for the investigation of the neurological basis of dreams in HUMANS, which must be an advance on previous investigations on non-human animals.Because you can't ask animals whether they were dreaming, or what they were dreaming about, much previous research has focussed on the (discredited, see above) link between REM and dreams. This book is a milestone in dream research, and is highly recommended.
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