Monthly Archives: September 2013

Formica_MJCP_1_1-13_2013_D-alexithymia The association between alexithymia and impoverishment of dreaming: an empirical research amongst undergraduate students Increasing evidence supports the hypothesis that people with alexithymia present, together with a lack of symbolic function, a dreaming component disorder. Therefore, this study aimed to … Continue reading →

Abel_CB_23_R774-R788_2013_S-plasticity-mem-review Sleep, Plasticity and Memory from Molecules to Whole-Brain Networks – Review Despite the ubiquity of sleep across phylogeny, its function remains elusive. In this review, weconsider one compelling candidate: brain plasticity associated with memory processing. Focusing largely on hippocampus-dependent memory in rodents and humans, we … Continue reading →

Bulkeley_PP_xx_xx-xx_2013_D-rec-worship Religious Worship and Dream Recall: New Results from a Survey of American Adults This study of 2,992 demographically diverse American adults provides a new empirical view of the relationship between dreams and religion. Participants answered a question about the frequency of their … Continue reading →

Fuentemilla_CB_23_1-7_2013_S-mem-hippo-spindle Hippocampus-Dependent Strengthening of Targeted Memories via Reactivation during Sleep in Humans Recent accumulating evidence in animals and humans has shown that memory strengthening occurs, at least partially, during sleep [1, 2] and relies on the covert reactivation of individual memory episodes [3–5]. However, it … Continue reading →

Stumbrys_CC_22_1214-1222_2013_lucid-D-tDCS-PFC Recent studies suggest that lucid dreaming (awareness of dreaming while dreaming) might be associated with increased brain activity over frontal regions during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. By applying transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), we aimed to manipulate the activation of the … Continue reading →

Leu-Semenescu_B_epub_1-5-suppl_2013_D-auto-activation-deficit Bilateral damage to the basal ganglia causes auto-activation deficit, a neuropsychological syndrome characterized by striking apathy, with a loss of self-driven behaviour that is partially reversible with external stimulation. Some patients with autoactivation deficit also experience a mental emptiness, which is … Continue reading →

View in browser Forward to a Friend Psychology of Consciousness Editor: Steven Jay Lynn, PhD Editorial Coverage Statement: Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice is a cross-disciplinary journal that encompasses neuroscience, social, cognitive, experimental, and clinical psychology. It publishes … Continue reading →

touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77383520/ Tore Nielsen http://www.dreamscience.ca