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Mark Solms

Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town
Verified email at uct.ac.za
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Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms

M Solms - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2000 - cambridge.org
The paradigmatic assumption that REM sleep is the physiological equivalent of dreaming is
in need of fundamental revision. A mounting body of evidence suggests that dreaming and …

[BOOK][B] The brain and the inner world: An introduction to the neuroscience of subjective experience

M Solms, O Turnbull - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution,
elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist …

The conscious id

M Solms - Neuropsychoanalysis, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… To this object-presentation we have to add a further complication called “Mark Solms”—the
word-presentation—which is neither really me nor an animated picture of me, but, rather, an …

[HTML][HTML] The “Id” knows more than the “Ego” admits: Neuropsychoanalytic and primal consciousness perspectives on the interface between affective and cognitive …

M Solms, J Panksepp - Brain Sciences, 2012 - mdpi.com
It is commonly believed that consciousness is a higher brain function. Here we consider the
likelihood, based on abundant neuroevolutionary data that lower brain affective phenomenal …

[BOOK][B] The neuropsychology of dreams: A clinico-anatomical study

M Solms - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
… In this book, Mark Solms has undertaken to provide the “missing link” of perceptual study,
namely, a neuropsychology of dream and related phenomena. The topic is of vital importance …

What is consciousness?

M Solms - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past few years scientists and scholars in a variety of disciplines have been making
concerted efforts to answer an ancient question, namely, How exactly do the physical …

What is neuropsychoanalysis? Clinically relevant studies of the minded brain

J Panksepp, M Solms - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Neuropsychoanalysis seeks to understand the human mind, especially as it relates to first-person
experience. It recognizes the essential role of neuroscience in such quests. However, …

[BOOK][B] Clinical studies in neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a depth neuropsychology

K Kaplan-Solms, M Solms - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
… The theoretical lectures were presented by Dr Mark Solms and the clinical cases by Dr
Karen Kaplan-Solms (then both Hon. Lecturers in Neurosurgery at St. Bartholomew's and the …

How and why consciousness arises: some considerations from physics and physiology

M Solms, K Friston - Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2018 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
We offer a scientific approach to the philosophical ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, as
formulated by David Chalmers in this journal. Our treatment is based upon two recent insights …

Reconciling cognitive and affective neuroscience perspectives on the brain basis of emotional experience

J Panksepp, RD Lane, M Solms, R Smith - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2017 - Elsevier
… In what follows, Jaak Panksepp (JP) and Mark Solms (MS) will represent the AN view while
Ryan Smith (RS) and Richard D. Lane (RDL) will represent the CN view. In Part 1 (Sections 2 …