The paradoxical aspects of dreams have always been interpreted according to prevalent ways of thinking. Dreams as premonitions of disease have been reported since the classical era, and hypnagogic hallucinations, so named by Alfred Maury and viewed as "psychosensory hallucinations" by Baillarger in the 1840s (extending the Kantian definition of the madman as a "waking dreamer"), have been...
Rare case reports have indicated that brain lesions may cause a loss of dream recall. We investigated reports of dream recallers with acute unilateral brain lesions who did not have clinical agnosia and examined 53 patients with such focal lesions clinically and radiologically. Patients with posterior lesions showed a frequent loss of dream recall while those with anterior lesions rarely did...
Introduction The significance to behavior of biologically active amines normally present in the mammalian brain has been receiving increased attention by workers in diversified fields in recent years. This trend has been accelerated by the recognition that a number of potent psychotherapeutic agents seem to assert their beneficial effects by influencing these amines in various ways. For...