References

Physiology of Sleep

Alvarez, A. Night: night life, night language, sleep and dreams. W.W. Norton and Company. NY.1995

Carlson, Neil. Physiology of behavior. Allyn and Bacon Publishers. 7th edition. Boston, 2001.

Empson, Jacob. Sleep and dreaming. Harvester Wheatsheaf Publications. 2nd edition. United Kingdom, 1993.

Harrison, Y. & Horne, J.A. One night of sleep loss impairs innvovative thinking and flexible decision making. Academic Press doi:10.1006/obdh 1999.

Hobson, Allan J. Sleep. Scientific American library, NY. 1995.

Lavie, Peretz. The enchanted world of sleep. Yale University Press. 1996.

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Divisions of brain

The four lobes

Reticular formation

The mesencephalon

The nerve cell

EEG

Man in hammock

Biological Functions of Dreams

Cartwright, Rosalind. (2000). How and why the brain makes dreams: a report card on current research on dreaming. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(6).

Doricchi, Fabrizio & Violani, Cristiano. (2000) Mesolimbic dopamine and the neuropsychology of dreaming: some caution and reconsiderations. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(6).

Foulkes, David. (1985). Dreaming: a cognitive-psychological analysis. Hillsdale: Lawrence Elrbaum Associates, Publishers.

Hock, Roger R. (1999). Forty Studies that Changed Psychology. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Solms, Mark. (2000)Dreaming and rem sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(6).

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Dream fantasy

Brain

Social Functions of Dreams

Hallowell, A. Irving. The Role of Dreams in Ojibwa Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Jensen, Erik. The Iban and Their Religion. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Moffitt, Alan; Milton Kramer, Robert Hoffman eds. The Functions of Dreaming. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Natterson, Joseph M. ed. The Dream in Clinical Practice. New York: Jason Aronson, Inc, 1980.

Parman, Susan. Dream and Culture. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.

Rattray, R. S. Religion and Art in Ashanti. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1927.

Stephen, Michele. A'aisa's Gifts. Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.

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