In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness. These approaches are shedding light on some of the hitherto unknown aspects of the various states of human consciousness.

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 Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Preface.- Introduction to States of Consciousness.- Disorders of Consciousness: Coma, Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious States.- 2 Codons of Consciousness: Neurological Characteristics of Ordinary and Pathological States of Consciousness.- Dream Consciousness and Sleep Physiology.- Dream Therapy: Correlation of Dream Contents with Encephalographic and Cardiovascular Activations.- 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.- Brain Rate as an Indicator of the Level of Consciousness.- On Physiological Bases of States of Expanded Consciousness.- States of Consciousness Beyond Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping: Perspectives from Research on Meditation Experiences.-Ethno Therapy, Music and Trance An Investigation into a Sound-Trance Induction.- States of Consciousness Redefines as Patterns of Phenomenal Properties: An Experimental Application.-