State Dissociation: Implications for Sleep and Wakefulness, Consciousness, and Culpability
| Autor: | Michel A. Cramer Bornemann, Carlos H. Schenck, Mark W. Mahowald |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Sleep terror media_common.quotation_subject Unconsciousness General Medicine medicine.disease Sleep medicine Developmental psychology Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Sleepwalking Phenomenon medicine Wakefulness Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Consciousness Psychology Cognitive psychology media_common Culpability |
| Zdroj: | Sleep Medicine Clinics. 6:393-400 |
| ISSN: | 1556-407X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jsmc.2011.08.002 |
| Popis: | This issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics explores the fascinating phenomenon of complex behaviors arising from the sleep period, occasionally with dramatic and unfortunate forensic implications. The concept of state dissociation provides a framework for understanding these behaviors and has important implications for consciousness in general. Acknowledgment of the fact that wakefulness/sleep and consciousness/unconsciousness are not mutually exclusive states but rather are characterized by fluid and often fluctuating boundaries will help to explain many curious clinical phenomena and will effect a change in the legal concepts of intent, responsibility, and culpability. There is now overwhelming evidence that the primary states of being (wakefulness [W], non–rapid |
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