Explains the neuronal phenomenology of various states of consciousness

Shows how new technology is helping to yield major advances

Written by a team of foremost international experts

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Preface.- Introduction to States of Consciousness; D. Cvetkovic.- Disorders of Consciousness: Coma, Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious States: O. Gosseries et al.-2 Codons of Consciousness: Neurological Characteristics of Ordinary and Pathological States of Consciousness; G.A. Kennedy.- Dream Consciousness and Sleep Physiology; M. Schredl, D. Erlacher.- Dream Therapy: Correlation of Dream Contents with Encephalographic and Cardiovascular Activations: A.C. da Rosa, J.P. Rodrigues.- The Substrate That Dreams Are Made On: An Evaluation of Current Neurobiological Theories of Dreaming; J.L. Dawson, R. Conduit.-Sleep Onset Process as an Altered State of Consciousness; D. Cvetkovic, I. Cosic.- Brain Rate as an Indicator of the Level of Consciousness; [...]-Jordanova.- On Physiological Bases of States of Expanded Consciousness; E. Jovanov.- States of Consciousness Beyond Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping: Perspectives from Research on Meditation Experiences; F. Travis.-Ethno Therapy, Music and Trance ¿ An Investigation into a Sound-Trance Induction; J. Fachner, S. Rittner.- States of Consciousness Redefines as Patterns of Phenomenal Properties: An Experimental Application; A.J. Rock, S. Krippner.-