The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

Brain Waves and Dreaming

J. F. Pagel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2024
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-323-99738-6 (ISBN)

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The Electrical Fields of Consciousness: Brain Waves and Dreaming examines neuro-electrophysiology from its origins in the electrical fields of primitive organisms to its roles in the electrophysiologically defined states of human consciousness. This volume presents and cogently organizes the wide spectrum of information available as to how and why bioelectrical fields are used to define and function in supporting both life and consciousness. Integrating electrophysiology in a comprehensible manner into neuroanatomical, electromagnetic, and global platform theories of neuroconsciousness, this book brings together the wide spectrum of available data-based evidence regarding the physiology and functions of bioelectric fields and their relationship to consciousness.

Chapters examine the origin and potential function of bioelectrical fields and EEG associations with conscious states, as well as the relationship between electrical fields and consciousness. Incorporating the basic science, clinical correlates, and functional potential of CNS bioelectrical fields, this book is a must-read for all working in the field of CNS electrophysiology or neuroconsciousness.

JF Pagel has authored more than 170 publications. His basic research addressed the electrophysiology of consciousness, the neurochemistry of sleep and dream, and the role of REM sleep in learning and memory. His clinical work includes proofs for non-dreaming and the requirement of sleep for dream and nightmare, the diagnostic code for nightmare disorder, a definition protocol for dream, and demonstrations that REM sleep and dreaming are doubly dissociable. He has developed approaches to treating insomnia, sleep & altitude, narcolepsy, pediatric parasomnias, and waking somnolence, as well as addressing dream and nightmare use in trauma, art, creativity and filmmaking. He is co-editor of one of the major sleep-medicine texts: Primary Care Sleep Disorders (2007/ 2014). His books include: The Limits of Dream – A Scientific Exploration of the Mind /Brain Interface (2007), Dreaming and Nightmares (ed.) (2010), and Dream Science – Exploring the Forms of Consciousness (2014).

1. Intro: The Search for Markers of Consciousness 2. Bioelectricity: Science and Pseudoscience - A History 3. Quantum Oscillations, Ion Gradients and the Creation of Bioelectricity 4. The Conveyance of Bioenergy 5. Electrical Fields as Markers for Life and Death 6. The Electrical Fields Marking Primary Consciousness in Single Cell Organisms 7. The Origin of Synchronous Electrical Fields - Neurochemistry and Genetics 8. The Bioenergetics and Neurofunction of Synchronous Electrical Fields in the CNS 9. Characteristics of Consciousness 10. Human Equivalent Consciousness 11. The EEG of Waking Consciousness 12. The EEG of Sleeping Conscious States 13. The Electrical Fields of Consciousness: Temporal Aspects 14. Drugs and Disease Effects on CNS Electrical Fields 15. Meditation Induced Alteration in Synchronous EEG Activity 16. Modern CNS Electrical Therapies 17. Transcending Neuroanatomic Theories of Neuroconsciousness 18. Global Platform Theories of Consciousness 19. Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness 20. Markers of Neuroconsciousness

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-323-99738-4 / 0323997384
ISBN-13	978-0-323-99738-6 / 9780323997386
Zustand	Neuware