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The international conference on "Neurosciences and Psychoanalysis: memory, emotions and dreams" held in Genoa in 2004 focused on three core themes in theory and research in both psychoanalysis and human brain sciences: memory, emotion, and dreaming. We participated in this conference by presenting the basic concepts of an integrative model of the brain functions that create biography (and thus individual thoughts, emotions, plans, and dreams), leading to an individual subjective viewpoint during all states of development and of consciousness. Using these concepts we discuss (1) psychosocially manifested developmental changes as products of the brain's learning and memory functions that create biography, i. E., autobiographical memory via experience-dependent cortical plasticity; and (2) the role of the brain's state-dependent but memory-driven retrieval processes in forming the individual's momentary thoughts, emotions, and actions, and their conscious perception, as well as the dream's content and the possibility of it being remembered during wakefulness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
