Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What we took was essentially a novel approach to dream research," says Hobson, who received an M.D. from Harvard in 1959. "Nobody had ever studied the electrical activity of the individual [brain] cells during sleep. What we did was use microelectrodes in the brain to see what was going on. We put them under the bone and aimed them at the cells where we thought REM was occuring and put an object on the bone to measuere the output...
Hobson says his dual neuron dream model allows him and his research staff to study "dreaming as a state as opposed to dreaming as a story." Hobson's concept allowed the researchers to study the content of dreams not as Sigmund Freud would have psychoanalyzed them, but as physiological processes...
Hobson and McCarley, who are both associated with the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical School, also tried to add to their dream model by analyzing the chemicals processed in the brain during REM sleep and then studying differences in the way various hormones direct sleeping versus waking activities...
...with Howard Baker, all the Outsiders that the Democrats dream about getting to run with Dukakis are too intelligent to get involved in a national election. Mario Cuomo, Sam Nunn and Bill Bradley would rather remain darlings of the media than play the straight...
Holmes a Court was not at the meeting to announce yet another daring takeover but to concede the end of his boldest dream. In just eight minutes, the raider crisply laid out plans for his Bell Resources company to sell -- at a $206 million loss -- most of its 28% stake in Broken Hill Proprietary, Australia's largest company (1987 revenues: $6 billion). Holmes a Court had patiently stalked BHP, a vast mineral and energy conglomerate, for nearly five years, aiming to use the company as the foundation for a global natural- resources empire. His decision to sell was poignant evidence...