in the popular tale " Ozma of Oz, " Lyman Frank Baum describes the princess Langwidere, who is capable of interchanging her currently worn head with another one, using a collection of heads stored in a cabinet. Remarkably, she changes her character as well when putting a new head on her neck. in the December 15, 2012 issue of Cell Cycle, Kurt Engeland and colleagues report a similar phenomenon ...

OBJECTIVE Schizophrenia is a chronic psychotic disorder with unknown etiology that causes cognitive impairment, affecting thinking, behavior, social function, sleep and dream content. This study considered the dream content of patients with schizophrenia, siblings of patients with schizophrenia, patients with psychiatric diagnoses other than schizophrenia, and a group of healthy controls. The a...

This article presents a theoretical and methodological framework for interactive dialogue and analysis of dream images in existential art therapy. In this phenomenologicalexistential approach, the client and art therapist are regarded as equal partners with respect to sharing in the process of creation and discovery of meaning (Frankl, 1955, 1969; Moon, 1995; Moustakas, 1994; Yalom, 1980). A br...

This paper describes a new method (DREAM) for structured, semi-quantitative dermal exposure assessment for chemical or biological agents that can be used in occupational hygiene or epidemiology. It is anticipated that DREAM could serve as an initial assessment of dermal exposure, amongst others, resulting in a ranking of tasks and subsequently jobs. DREAM consists of an inventory and evaluation...

In the emerging agile manufacturing paradigm, there is a great need for a flexible and re-configurable IT platform to form virtual enterprises. In this paper, according to the functional requirements of virtual agile manufacturing, a pragmatic Web-based platform entitled ‘‘E-DREAM’’ has been developed to support the virtual enterprising. Firstly, this paper discusses the E-DREAM basic architect...

Many studies have investigated the effect of waking experience, e.g., pre-sleep stimuli, stress, major life events, traumata, on dream content and have supported the so-called continuity hypothesis of dreaming, i. e. waking experience is reflected in dreams (Overviews: 1-3). On the other hand, systematic research on the effects of drams on subsequent waking life is scarce, although a considerab...

PURPOSE To evaluate morning dream recall frequency and content in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS Fifty-two patients with pharmacoresistant TLE submitted to a written dream diary during five consecutive days and continuous video-electroencephalographic (video-EEG) monitoring. A matched control group of 41 healthy subjects completed the same diary at home. The number of rec...

DREAM (also known as K(+) channel interacting protein 3 and calsenilin) is a calcium binding protein and an active modulator of KV4 channels in neuronal cells as well as a novel Ca(2+)-regulated transcriptional modulator. DREAM has also been associated with the regulation of Alzheimer's disease through the prevention of presenilin-2 fragmentation. Many interactions of DREAM with its binding par...