The role of peripheral physiology in the experience of emotion has been debated since the
19th century following the seminal proposal by William James that somatic responses to …

Lucid dreaming refers to the phenomenon of becoming aware of the fact that one is
dreaming during ongoing sleep. Despite having been physiologically validated for decades …

Visual imagery during sleep has long been a topic of persistent speculation, but its private
nature has hampered objective analysis. Here we present a neural decoding approach in …

The greater expansion of the frontal lobes along the phylogeny scale has been interpreted
as the signature of evolutionary changes underlying higher cognitive abilities in humans …

Conventional approaches to understanding consciousness are generally concerned with
the contribution of specific brain areas or groups of neurons. By contrast, it is considered …

This article explores the notion that Freudian constructs may have neurobiological
substrates. Specifically, we propose that Freud's descriptions of the primary and secondary …

Dream experience (DE) represents a fascinating condition linked to emotional processes
and the human inner world. Although the overlap between REM sleep and dreaming has …

Background: Of all the psychiatric disorders associated with insomnia, depression is the
most common. It has been estimated that 90% of patients with depression complain about …

Dreams are a remarkable experiment in psychology and neuroscience, conducted every
night in every sleeping person. They show that the human brain, disconnected from the …

This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution,
elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the …