The dream drugstore : chemically altered states of consciousness /

In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic dr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hobson, J. Allan, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
©2001
Colección:Bradford Bks.
Temas:
Altered states of consciousness > Physiological aspects.
Neurochemistry.
Imagination.
Metabolism.
Sleep.
Cognition.
Psychophysiology.
Human information processing.
Consciousness.
Brain chemistry.
Imagination
Metabolism
Sleep
Cognition
Biochemical Phenomena
Psychophysiology
Chemical Phenomena
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Phenomena and Processes
Mental Processes
Psychiatry and Psychology
Consciousness
Dreams
Brain Chemistry
Neurochemistry
États modifiés de conscience > Aspect physiologique.
Neurochimie.
Métabolisme.
Sommeil.
Psychophysiologie.
Traitement de l'information chez l'homme.
Conscience.
Cerveau > Chimie.
imagination.
metabolism (biological concept)
cognition.
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY > Neuropsychology.
Bewusstsein
Neuropsychologie
Bewustzijnstoestanden.
Dromen.
Slaap.
Chemische reacties.
Stemmingen (psychologie)
Neurochemie.
Psychofarmaca.
Drugs.
NEUROSCIENCE/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Consciousness and brain science
  • 2. Pushing the envelope : how states of consciousness alter
  • 3. Waking and dreaming : the polestars of our stately cosmos
  • 4. The neurodynamics of dreaming
  • 5. The neurodynamics of dissociation, hypnosis, and autosuggestion
  • 6. The brain-mind and its conscious states
  • 7. Models of conscious state alteration
  • 8. Sleep and dream disorders
  • 9. Brain dysfunctions that alter consciousness
  • 10. The psychopharmocology of everyday life : drugs for anxiety and sleep.
  • 11. Regulating mood : the MAOIs, tricyclics, and SSRIs
  • 12. Psychosis and antispychosis : opening and shutting the dream drugstore
  • 13. Good trips and bad : the psychodelics
  • 14. Feeling no pain : the narcotics
  • 15. From cult to laboratory : mushrooms, cactus buttons, and coca leaves
  • 16. Treatment implications : changing the brain by changing the mind.

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