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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...
While hugely influential, Hobson and McCarley's Activation-Synthesis model attracted hordes of critics, who protested that many dreams aren't merely cognitive fragments nor a succession of chaotic images, but so story-like, sequential and dramatic that the thinking brain must surely have played a more substantial role in...
There is already a concurrent degree program between HBS and KSG, in which over 50 students are presently enrolled. But the creators of the new joint-degree program stressed that the new program’s curriculum will target the synthesis of knowledge particular to the individual schools through special...
A perfect example of the synthesis of academia and oenophilia is Robert N. Stavins, Pratt professor of business and government. Last year he co-founded of the “Journal of Wine Economics.” Around the same time, he threw a “Sideways?...
Fox, 40, has perfected a new kind of action hero, a synthesis of Alan Alda and John Wayne who shows his feelings and frustrations--but just barely. As the reticent tough-guy doctor on Lost, which returns to ABC on Feb. 7, Fox acts as if he's forced against...