In the Dreamscape of Nightmares, Clues to Why We Dream at All
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By all evidence, outrageously bad dreams are a universal human experience.
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SUNDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The nightly trip to dreamland is a frustrating one for millions of American children suffering from insomnia, night awakenings and even sleep apnea, experts say.
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By Lisa Anderson  NEW YORK - In a world so riven by religious, political and economic differences, it is striking how much we all have in common when it comes to the fabulous creatures that inhabit our dreams and our nightmares.
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Fear is a handy evolutionary mechanism for staying out of danger. So why do we get off on it sometimes?
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Scientists say they have located the parts of the brain that help us &#39;unlearn&#39; our fears. One of the main areas involved is the same as that used to learn fears in the first place, experiments by the New York University team showed.
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Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the pollsâwhile appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold? A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters' brains.
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WASHINGTON - A stroke that robbed a woman of her dreams may help pinpoint where and how dreams are born in the brain, scientists said on Friday.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.
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The stuff that dreams are made of is a chunk of grey matter deep down at the back of the human brain, reveals a study of a rare form of brain damage.
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The new study clarifies the picture of what the sleeping brain does with newly studied material.
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Stimulating a certain area of the brain   can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when   no one is, scientists said on Wednesday.
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New research supports the hypothesis that during sleep, the connections between neurons weaken.
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Subliminal images do attract the brain's attention on a subconscious level, say UK researchers.
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In our closets, and our minds, the books, clothes and dreams.
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NEW YORK  - Scientists are closer to   understanding how a particular gene mutation causes some people   to be extreme morning larks -- findings that could eventually   aid in understanding various sleep disorders.
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If you look into the eyes of someone who is frightened, your brain will pick up on the fear in a split second, well before you can consciously put a name to the emotion, scientists say.
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The areas of the brain involved in learning fears have been known, but new research now identifies the areas involved in extinguishing those fears.