Consciousness - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness.

29 Sep 2009 Dreaming has fascinated and mystified humankind for ages: the bizarre and evanescent qualities of dreams have invited boundless speculation about their origin, meaning and purpose. For most of the twentieth century, scientific dream theories were ... Read more...

Intentional inhibition: how the "veto-area" exerts control.

30 Aug 2009 One important aspect of self-control is refraining voluntarily from already planned behavior, by a final intervention before commitment to action. Despite its crucial role in human existence, and clear social implications, this aspect of ... Read more...

Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming.

30 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: The goal of the study was to seek physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dissociated state with aspects of waking and dreaming combined in a way so as to suggest a specific alteration in brain physiology ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Consciousness - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The phase of ongoing EEG oscillations uncovers the fine temporal structure of conscious perception. 12 Oct 2009
• REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness. 29 Sep 2009
• Intentional inhibition: how the "veto-area" exerts control. 30 Aug 2009
• Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming. 30 Aug 2009
• Animal consciousness: a synthetic approach. 24 Aug 2009
• Temporal transformations in cinema and psychoanalysis: on Philip Groenig's Into Great Silence. 30 Jul 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• New beginnings: evidence that the meditational regimen can lead to optimization of perception, attention, cognition, and other functions. 30 Jul 2009
• The cross-cultural evidence on "extreme behaviors": what can it tell us? 30 Jul 2009
• Closing the doors of perception. 30 Jul 2009
• Control: conscious and otherwise. 29 Jul 2009
• Do not underestimate science. 22 Jul 2009
• A plastic temporal brain code for conscious state generation. 20 Jul 2009
• Free will: emotions and consciousness could contribute. 23 Jun 2009
• Neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury. 21 Jun 2009
• Baseline brain energy supports the state of consciousness. 17 Jun 2009
• The fMRI signal, slow cortical potential and consciousness. 13 Jun 2009
• Memory and consciousness in Alzheimer's disease. 30 May 2009
• Minimally conscious state after ruptured giant basilar aneurysm. 30 May 2009
• Automatisms in absence seizures in children with idiopathic generalized epilepsy. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Consciousness'

Definition: Sense of awareness of self and of the environment.

Descriptor UI: D003243

Alternative terms: Consciousness; Consciousnesses;

Related Mesh Headings: Unconsciousness;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.409; F02.830.233;