tive secondary metabolites including antifungal macrocyclic polyacetones, antiinsectan indole diterpenoids, and antibacterial polyoxygenated farnesylcyclohexenones. In our continuing search for antimicrobial substances from endophytic fungi isolated from the leaves of Garcinia plants, the crude extract of Penicillium paxilli PSU-A71 exhibited interesting antifungal acitvity against Microsporum ...

to the introspective group of dream studies and is based on notes taken during twenty years, chiefly of the author's own dream experiences, though occasionally those of immediate friends are included. There are apparently as many well known authorities who believe that deep sleep is dreamless as there are those who contend that we dream during the whole period of sleep, only we fail to remember...

The present summary is the fourth and final report of a dream naturalistic work begun on August 13, 1992. The initial impetus for this study was to follow in the footsteps and/or heed the need expressed by other dream researchers (4-11) to conduct naturalistic observations of dream events and content: that this approach was desirable and as genuine a methodology as dream laboratory research. Th...

Although a potentially helpful therapeutic tool, dream interpretation or dream work is only used occasionally in most forms of psychotherapy. Despite an interest from clinicians and clients alike in using dreams within therapy, many therapists feel unprepared to attend to their clients' dreams. The main goals of this article are to make clinicians aware that integrating dreams into their clinic...

This paper shows how the dream archive and search engine on DreamBank.net, a Web site containing over 22,000 dream reports, can be used to generate new findings on dream content, some of which raise interesting questions about the relationship between dreaming and various forms of waking thought. It begins with studies that draw dream reports from DreamBank.net for studies of social networks in...

The DreamThrower is a novel technology that explores virtually creating, throwing and catching dreams. It detects users’ dream state by measuring rapid eye movement (REM). Once the dream state is detected, sound and light stimuli is played to alter the dream. Users report on their dream, and they can send the stimuli that they have used to another person via an on-line website. A working protot...

The role of dreaming in childhood and in adulthood are still equally enigmatic fields yet to be fully explored. However, while there is a consensus at least about the typical content and formal characteristics of adult dream reports, these features are still a matter of debate in the case of young children. Longitudinal developmental laboratory studies concluded that preschoolers' dreams usuall...

Website: www.jaim.in “All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to fi nd that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.” This quote by a British writer is very true of Vaidyachudamani Madhav Vasudev Kolhatkar, because his vision for Ayurveda and...

Glutamate-induced excitotoxicity has been implicated in the etiology of stroke, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases. NMDA receptors (NMDARs) play a pivotal role in excitotoxic injury; however, clinical trials testing NMDAR antagonists as neuroprotectants have been discouraging. The development of novel neuroprotectant molecules is being vigorously pursued. Here, we report that downstream r...

We are at least as dream deprived as we are sleep deprived. Many of the health concerns attributed to sleep loss result from a silent epidemic of REM sleep deprivation. REM/dream loss is an unrecognized public health hazard that silently wreaks havoc with our lives, contributing to illness, depression, and an erosion of consciousness. This paper compiles data about the causes and extent of REM/...