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...Recent developments in dream research won't make sense without first touching on the academic thunderbolt of 1977, when a paper by two Harvard neurophysiologists, Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, ran in the American Journal of Psychiatry. At the time, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams (which holds, in part, that dreams preserve sleep by distracting the brain with reflections of the unconscious) was a pillar of psychiatry. In The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process, the Harvard pair challenged Freudian theory on virtually every point. They argued that dreams are nonsense...
...There are tensions in the field, but "it's starting to break out of its malaise," says Robert Stickgold, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School's Center for Sleep and Cognition. Recently, scientists have abandoned stagnant theories of dreaming and postulated new and intriguing ones, with experiments underway in various parts of the world aimed at establishing the function of our nightly hallucinations. If recent work suggests anything, it's that there is such a function, or more than one, and that dreams aren't just neural waste. They may improve the quality of our sleep. They...
...didn't hear the White House speaking out about that.' NANCY PELOSI, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, shrugging off Bush Administration criticism of her trip to Damascus, Syria, on April 3, during which she hoped to revive U.S. relations with the country. Republican Representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt also met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on April...
...Oppression is sin and cannot be compromised with. It must be overcome. God takes sides with the oppressed.' PASTORAL LETTER written by Zimbabwe's powerful Catholic Bishops' Conference, which condemned President Robert Mugabe's government as 'racist, corrupt and lawless...
...committee surveyed students, alumni, and faculty members and documented the existence of an “empty niche” for a program of this kind, said Pratt Professor of Business and Government Robert M. Stavins...