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.

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.-