In this interview, Jennifer Windt discusses the importance of studying dreams to understand consciousness, how theories of dreaming have evolved over time, how neuroimaging has influenced the way in which we think about dreams, how we might redefine the taxonomy of conscious phenomena occurring during sleep, the role of first-person reports in dream research, her own Immersive Spatiotemporal Hallucination (ISTH) model of dreaming, as well as challenges for future research.

Is consciousness an all-or-none or graded phenomenon? Much research has been devoted to investigate this question for contents of consciousness (e.g. ‘I see a red rose’), but far less for global states of consciousness (e.g. being awake or asleep). Philosopher and experimentalist Jabob Hohwy argues that global states of consciousness do not come in degrees or ‘levels’, but rather in modes, i.e., as different ways of being conscious. Capturing the diversity of conscious states requires...

Our study is to explore the expression profiles and potential functions of circRNAs in prostate cancer (PCa). A total of 95 circRNAs and 830 mRNAs were screened to be significantly differentially expressed in PCa tissues by microarrays. Co-expression and competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network were constructed to reveal the potential regulatory mechanisms of circRNAs. Three circRNAs, hsa_circ_0001206, hsa_circ_0001633, and hsa_circ_0009061 were validated to be down-regulated in PCa by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and hsa_circ_0001206 as...

Our study is to explore the expression profiles and potential functions of circRNAs in prostate cancer (PCa). A total of 95 circRNAs and 830 mRNAs were screened to be significantly differentially expressed in PCa tissues by microarrays. Co-expression and competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network were constructed to reveal the potential regulatory mechanisms of circRNAs. Three circRNAs, hsa_circ_0001206, hsa_circ_0001633, and hsa_circ_0009061 were validated to be down-regulated in PCa by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and hsa_circ_0001206 as...