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Cargando... Consciousness (1998)por J. Allan Hobson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I read this book and wonder where I went wrong in my career. This fellow is writing from a hotel in Italy, has a Harvard professorship and a McCarthur foundation grant, and gets to think great thoughts about the brain. He writes about consciousness from his perspective of dream and sleep research. His main idea is that the various states of consciusness can be located in a space defined by variables of activation of the brain, input modulation, and neuromodulation by serotonin, norepinephrine and acetylcholine. Acetylcholine leans the brain towards consciousness, where activation is high, and sensory gating pays attention to external stimuli; in REM sleep internal sensations predominate. His prose was a little on the purple side, and I think he made some errors in the neurochemistry and neurophysiology, but the book is handsomely designed and generally interesting. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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J. Allan Hobson presents a critical overview of conceptions of consciousness, relating it to specific areas of the brain and their chemical and physical states. He charts the various states of waking, dreaming and non-consciousness using the theories and data of neuroscience, psychiatry and neurophysiology, whilst conveying the mysterious and seductive nature of his subject. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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