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What Are Dreams? Presentation by Charles Beaman MD/PhD Student UT Health
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Are Dreams Important? 2 Nobel Prizes Otto Loewi Chemical Transmission of Nerve Impulses Neils Bohr Structure 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? Stages of Sleep
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Animals in REM Sleep
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Two Types of Dreams Stages of Sleep 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 Rats Now 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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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?
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