what are dreams?
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What Are Dreams?. Presentation by Charles Beaman MD/PhD Student UT Health. Are Dreams Important?. 2 Nobel Prizes. Neils Bohr Structure of Atoms and Quantum Mechanics. Otto Loewi Chemical Transmission of Nerve Impulses. How Do We Measure Dreams?. Electroencephalography (EEG). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What Are Dreams?Presentation
byCharles Beaman
MD/PhD StudentUT Health
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Are Dreams Important?2 Nobel Prizes
Otto Loewi Chemical Transmission of
Nerve Impulses
Neils BohrStructure of Atoms and
Quantum Mechanics
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How Do We Measure Dreams?
Electroencephalography (EEG)
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How Do We Measure Dreams?St
ages
of S
leep
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Two Types of DreamsSt
ages
of S
leep
NREM
REM
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NREM Dreaming
REM Dreaming
• Compressed in Time Scale (1 sec of dream equals 10 of reality)• Practice Learned skills
• Expanded Time Scale • Simulations?• Emotional• Testing Future Possibilities
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NREM Dreaming – Tetris Experiment
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Tetris Improvement
Expert Players
Novice Players
Amnesics
Novice Players reported dreaming about Tetris much more than Expert Players
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Alpine Racer 2
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Dreaming in RatsNow we can actually LISTEN to the Neurons in the brain
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Rats in the Maze
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Dreaming in Rats
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Dreaming in Rats
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NREM Dreaming
REM Dreaming
• Compressed in Time Scale (1 sec of dream equals 10 of reality)• Practice Learned skills• Declarative Memory?
• Expanded Time Scale • Simulations?• Testing Future Possibilities• Procedural Memory?
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REM Dreaming
• Vividly remembered Dreams
• REM Atonia
• Sexual Stimulation
• Emotions
• Is there a point?
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Why Do We have Nightmares?
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How Does My Lab Measure Dreams?
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Electrocorticography
• Intractable Epilepsy Patients
• Patients in the Hospital for about 1 week
• We can use this time window to study Sleep
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Local Sleep
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Future Research
The Dream-Reading Machine
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Dream-Reading Machine
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Thank You
Questions?