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Rev Mex Neuroci 2015; 16 (1)

The dream activity as the “new road” to consciousness

Salín-Pascual RJ

Language: Spanish
References: 94
Page: 90-114
PDF size: 252.18 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The scientific study of dreams, is now possible from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology and clinical contributions of neurological and psychiatric patients. Dreams could be the frame in evolutionary perspective, that may provide some explanation of its usefulness and why that have been preserved in different animals, including homo sapiens. From this perspective, a model of virtual reality, where are deployed in parallel several models to address the threats and dangers of everyday life is proposed. Some people have a kind of clarity of their dreams, that has been called lucid dreams. This is a skill that can be induced and represents another tool for the study of dreams. Currently disputed model of activationsynthesis, where activation of cortical structures by PGO waves (Ponto-Geniculo-Occipital Waves) , which are generated in the pons. The main Keywords Cognition, consciousness, dreams, oniric activity, sleep. objection to this model is that it does not explain the dreams in No-REM sleep. Finally neurological abnormalities such as lesions in the brain stem, that not decrease or block REM sleep, and the dreams reported by those patients. While lesions in associative areas like parieto-temporo-occipital, cancel the generation of dream activity, however that did not abolish REM sleep. This has generated the proposal that mental activity known as dream, is a process in parallel, but independent of the different sleep phase.


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