Division of Sleep Medicine @ Harvard Medical School
Faculty Profile
J. Allan Hobson, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Other Affiliation(s)
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Address
138 High StreetBrookline, MA 02445
USA
Phone 617-734-3812
Email allan_hobson@hms.harvard.edu
Society Memberships
Society for NeuroscienceSociety for Sleep Research
AAAS
Research Interests
Quantifying mental events and correlating them with quantified brain events, with special reference to waking, sleeping and dreaming.
Trainees
Ralph Lydic, PhD; Helen Baghdoyan, PhD; Subimal Datta, PhD; Michael P. Biber, MD
Mentor(s)
Michel Jouvet, MD; Frederick Snyder, MD; Elwood Henneman, MD; Mark Altschul, MD
Selected Publications
Minshew NJ, Hobson JA. Sensory Sensitivities and Performance on Sensory Perceptual Tasks in High-functioning Individuals with Autism.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Feb 27. [Epub ahead of print] [PMID: 18302014]
Hobson JA. Wake up or dream on? Six questions for Turnbull and Solms.
Cortex. 2007 Nov;43(8):1113-5; discussion 1116-21. [PMID: 18044679]
Scarone S, Manzone ML, Gambini O, Kantzas I, Limosani I, D'Agostino A, Hobson JA. The dream as a model for psychosis: an experimental approach using bizarreness as a cognitive marker.
Schizophr Bull. 2008 May;34(3):515-22. Epub 2007 Oct 17. [PMID: 17942480]
Hobson JA, Hobson RP. Identification: the missing link between joint attention and imitation?
Dev Psychopathol. 2007 Spring;19(2):411-31. [PMID: 17459177]
Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Muzur A, Wigren PE, Ward AS, Hart CL, Walker M, Edgar C, Hobson JA. Cognitive performance by humans during a smoked cocaine binge-abstinence cycle.
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2005;31(4):571-91. [PMID: 16320435]
Hobson JA. Sleep is of the brain, by the brain and for the brain.
Nature. 2005 Oct 27;437(7063):1254-6. [PMID: 16251949]
Kahn D, Hobson JA. State-dependent thinking: a comparison of waking and dreaming thought.
Conscious Cogn. 2005 Sep;14(3):429-38. Epub 2004 Dec 15. [PMID: 16091263]
Quattrochi JJ, Bazalakova M, Hobson JA. From synapse to gene product: prolonged expression of c-fos induced by a single microinjection of carbachol in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum.
Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2005 May 20;136(1-2):164-76. Epub 2005 Mar 23. [PMID: 15893601]
Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Muzur A, Wigren PE, Ward AS, Hart CL, Clarke D, Morgan A, Hobson JA. Sleep quality deteriorates over a binge--abstinence cycle in chronic smoked cocaine users.
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2005 Jun;179(4):873-83. Epub 2005 Jan 26. [PMID: 15672273]
Hobson, JA. 2002. Dreaming: An Introduction to Sleep Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hobson, JA and Jonathan Leonard. 2001. Out of Its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing.
Hobson, JA. 2001. The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Hobson, JA. 1999. Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind. Cumberland: MIT Press.
Hobson, JA. 1998. Consciousness. New York: Scientific American Library.
Hobson, JA. 1994. The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes Its Mind. Boston: Little Brown and Co.
Hobson, JA. 1989. Sleep. New York: Scientific American Library.
Hobson, JA. 1989. The Dreaming Brain: How the Brain Creates Both the Sense and the Nonsense of Dreams. Scrantan: Basic Books.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Feb 27. [Epub ahead of print] [PMID: 18302014]
Hobson JA. Wake up or dream on? Six questions for Turnbull and Solms.
Cortex. 2007 Nov;43(8):1113-5; discussion 1116-21. [PMID: 18044679]
Scarone S, Manzone ML, Gambini O, Kantzas I, Limosani I, D'Agostino A, Hobson JA. The dream as a model for psychosis: an experimental approach using bizarreness as a cognitive marker.
Schizophr Bull. 2008 May;34(3):515-22. Epub 2007 Oct 17. [PMID: 17942480]
Hobson JA, Hobson RP. Identification: the missing link between joint attention and imitation?
Dev Psychopathol. 2007 Spring;19(2):411-31. [PMID: 17459177]
Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Muzur A, Wigren PE, Ward AS, Hart CL, Walker M, Edgar C, Hobson JA. Cognitive performance by humans during a smoked cocaine binge-abstinence cycle.
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2005;31(4):571-91. [PMID: 16320435]
Hobson JA. Sleep is of the brain, by the brain and for the brain.
Nature. 2005 Oct 27;437(7063):1254-6. [PMID: 16251949]
Kahn D, Hobson JA. State-dependent thinking: a comparison of waking and dreaming thought.
Conscious Cogn. 2005 Sep;14(3):429-38. Epub 2004 Dec 15. [PMID: 16091263]
Quattrochi JJ, Bazalakova M, Hobson JA. From synapse to gene product: prolonged expression of c-fos induced by a single microinjection of carbachol in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum.
Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2005 May 20;136(1-2):164-76. Epub 2005 Mar 23. [PMID: 15893601]
Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Muzur A, Wigren PE, Ward AS, Hart CL, Clarke D, Morgan A, Hobson JA. Sleep quality deteriorates over a binge--abstinence cycle in chronic smoked cocaine users.
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2005 Jun;179(4):873-83. Epub 2005 Jan 26. [PMID: 15672273]
Hobson, JA. 2002. Dreaming: An Introduction to Sleep Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hobson, JA and Jonathan Leonard. 2001. Out of Its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing.
Hobson, JA. 2001. The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Hobson, JA. 1999. Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind. Cumberland: MIT Press.
Hobson, JA. 1998. Consciousness. New York: Scientific American Library.
Hobson, JA. 1994. The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes Its Mind. Boston: Little Brown and Co.
Hobson, JA. 1989. Sleep. New York: Scientific American Library.
Hobson, JA. 1989. The Dreaming Brain: How the Brain Creates Both the Sense and the Nonsense of Dreams. Scrantan: Basic Books.
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