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Research, experiments into the origins of emotions
- Brains in Dreamland
Brains in Dreamland: Science News Online, Aug. 11, 2001
Scientists hope to raise the neural curtain on sleep's virtual theater
Bruce BowerSigmund Freud's century-old dream theory gets a contrasting reception from two current neuroscientific accounts of how and why the brain generates dreams.
- Int J of Psychopathology, Psychopharmacology, and Psychotherapy
Identification of Waking State REM As Mediator In Volitional Regulation of Autonomic Function.
Cite as: Singh R, Chew KS and Tanggong F Identification of Waking State REM as Mediator in Volitional Regulation of Autonomic Function. Int J Psychopath Psychopharmacol Psychother 1996, 1 (1). URL http://www.psycom.net/ijppp.v1n1.html
Introduction
Objective of the present experiment was to test if, in waking state, REM was critical in volitional increase of finger temperature. Ten undergraduate medical students volunteered for the experiment, each receiving one 20-minute session for the purpose of increasing their finger temperature by imagery. Hypothesis was deemed confirmed if both REM and finger temperature increase occrred or if both did not occur in the session. The hypothesis was confirmed in 8 of the 10 subjects. This work privides direct evidence for neuro-psychological mechanism underneath all mind-body phenomena which, like in the present work, may be working through imagery/REM.
- A New Theory of Emotion
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Ratan Singh, Ph.D.
The aim of this paper is to provide evidence to the fact that dream-like or
REM-like neuropsychological mechanism, and right hemisphere are involved in
autonomic bodily change; and, in as much as autonomic nervous system is
involved in any emotion, dream-like mechanism and right hemisphere are
proposed to be involved in emotion as well.
Singh (1986, 1987), while training subjects in waking state to volitionally
increase their fingertip temperature by imageries and biofeedback, found
that the subject who was not able to increase the finger temperature was
also not able to have any REM-like horizontal eye movements in the session,
but the subject, who was able to increase her fingertip temperature by at
least 2 degree F above her 5-minute baseline, was also able to give/have
REM-like horizontal eye movements.
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