The Science of Sleep and Dreams
Assignments and Articles on Sleep and Dreams
Articles on Consciousness
Psychoactive Drugs
Alcohol
Marijuana
Stimulants: Cocaine, Methamphetamine, ADHD/ADD medications
- Lecture notes
- Quiet! Sleeping Brain At Work -- excellent article
- An overview of dreams and dream theory
- Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams -- article
- Frozen Nightmares: the scary side of dreaming
- What are Dreams -- class video
Assignments and Articles on Sleep and Dreams
- Extra Credit Dream Project
- Class activity with dream analysis
- What dreams are made of
- Dreaming and the Brain
Articles on Consciousness
- Quantum Mechanical Theories of Consciousness
- The Chaos of Consciousness
- An introduction to Freud and the unconscious -- we will read this in Personality Theory
- What is it? -- Video
Psychoactive Drugs
- Lecture notes
- 2015 abbreviated notes with some extra material on addiction
- Mouse Party -- a cool website to help learn the neurology of some psychoactive drugs
- The Science of Addiction
- A report on alcohol and race from NIH
- RESEARCH: National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Intervention
- The real cause of addiction? -- Great article
- Great resource for an overview of psychoactive drugs
- Early research on the reward pathway -- includes James Olds research
Alcohol
Marijuana
- An overview of THC
- Children and marijuana
- The medical use and warnings with respect to marijuana
- Marijuana and the brain: the long-term effects
- THC and the reward pathway -- video
- THC and Motivation -- video
Stimulants: Cocaine, Methamphetamine, ADHD/ADD medications
Videos on Sleep and Dreams
Dreams and the Arts
Videos Regarding Psychoactive Drugs
Drugs and the Arts