States of Consciousness Experimental Insights into Meditation, Waking, Sleep and Dreams /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cvetkovic, Dean (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Cosic, Irena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Σειρά: The Frontiers Collection,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Laboratory medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Biomedical engineering.; Anthropology.; Clinical psychology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedical Engineering.; Laboratory Medicine.; Clinical Psychology.

In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness. These approaches are shedding light on some of the hitherto unknown aspects of the distinct states of human consciousness, including the waking state, different...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Introduction to States of Consciousness
• Disorders of Consciousness: Coma, Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious States
• 2 Codons of Consciousness: Neurological Characteristics of Ordinary and Pathological States of Consciousness
• Dream Consciousness and Sleep Physiology
• Dream Therapy: Correlation of Dream Contents with Encephalographic and Cardiovascular Activations
• The Substrate That Dreams Are Made On: An Evaluation of Current Neurobiological Theories of Dreaming; J.L. Dawson, R. Conduit.-Sleep Onset Process as an Altered State of Consciousness
• Brain Rate as an Indicator of the Level of Consciousness
• On Physiological Bases of States of Expanded Consciousness
• States of Consciousness Beyond Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping: Perspectives from Research on Meditation Experiences.-Ethno Therapy, Music and Trance – An Investigation into a Sound-Trance Induction
• States of Consciousness Redefines as Patterns of Phenomenal Properties: An Experimental Application.-.