Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice
November 10, 2020
J. Allan Hobson, Jarrod Gott, Karl Friston
29 citations
OBJECTIVE: -that emerges from sleep research and theoretical neurobiology-can be applied to pathophysiology and psychopathology in psychiatry. METHODS: Our starting point is that the mind and brain are emergent aspects of the same (neuronal) dynamics; namely, the brain-mind. Our endpoint is that synaptic dysconnection syndromes inherit the same dual aspect; namely, aberrant inference or belief...
Frontiers in Psychology
November 12, 2018
Ursula Voss, Armando D’Agostino, Luca Kolibius et al.
28 citations
Dreams and psychosis share several important features regarding symptoms and underlying neurobiology, which is helpful in constructing a testable model of, for example, schizophrenia and delirium. The purpose of the present communication is to discuss two major concepts in dreaming and psychosis that have received much attention in the recent literature: insight and dissociation. Both phenomena...
Dreaming
December 1, 2002
David Kahn, J. Allan Hobson
10 citations
This study reports on the number of feelings evoked in men and women by their dream characters as well as on the relative frequency of different kinds of feelings. Thirty-five subjects recorded 320 dreams over a two-week period, submitted dream reports and a dream log of all characters that appeared in their dreams as well as any feelings involving the characters. We found that feelings were...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
2001
J. Allan Hobson, Edward F Pace-Schott, Robert Stickgold
56 citations
: Sleep researchers in different disciplines disagree about how fully dreaming can be explained in terms of brain physiology. Debate has focused on whether REM sleep dreaming is qualitatively different from nonREM (NREM) sleep and waking. A review of psychophysiological studies shows clear quantitative differences between REM and NREM mentation and between REM and waking mentation. Recent...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1996
Helene Sophrin Porte, J. Allan Hobson
29 citations
As a normal psychological event, dreaming is an object of fascination and of conflicting explanation. In biopsychological terms, this article compares 3 explanations of 1 salient feature of dream cognition. Physical movement can be measured in dream reports, can be understood in physiologic terms, and can provide a focus for comparing dream theories. In addition, dreamed motion may have...
Birkhäuser Boston eBooks
1988
J. Allan Hobson
43 citations
Dreaming is a distinctive mental state that occurs periodically in normal human sleep. Typical dream reports include such psychological features as hallucinations, delusions, cognitive abnormalities, emotional intensification, and amnesia. These five remarkable features of dreaming have invited its comparison to abnormal states of mind occurring during waking in certain clinical conditions,...