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PhD Psychology University of Cape Town
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According to Wikipedia, Mark Solms is a South African psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, who is known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his use of psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience. He holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital and is the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. He is also Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association .

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Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms (2000) (540)
The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience (2002) (540)
The molecular genetics of cognition: dopamine, COMT and BDNF (2006) (303)
Clinical Studies in Neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology (2000) (199)
Neuropsychological dysfunction in bipolar affective disorder: a critical opinion. (2005) (192)
The “Id” Knows More than the “Ego” Admits: Neuropsychoanalytic and Primal Consciousness Perspectives on the Interface Between Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience (2012) (191)
The Conscious Id (2013) (182)
What Is Consciousness? (1997) (168)
The neural substrates of mindfulness: An fMRI investigation (2011) (149)
New findings on the neurological organization of dreaming: implications for psychoanalysis. (1995) (131)
What is neuropsychoanalysis? Clinically relevant studies of the minded brain (2012) (117)
Neuropsychological task performance in bipolar spectrum illness: genetics, alcohol abuse, medication and childhood trauma. (2008) (105)
Wishful reality distortions in confabulation: a case report (2004) (102)
Affective neuroscientific and neuropsychoanalytic approaches to two intractable psychiatric problems: Why depression feels so bad and what addicts really want (2011) (100)
Reconciling cognitive and affective neuroscience perspectives on the brain basis of emotional experience (2017) (87)
On psychoanalysis and neuroscience: Freud's attitude to the localizationist tradition. (1986) (78)
The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle (2019) (77)
Confabulation: Motivated reality monitoring (2007) (76)
Genotype and Childhood Sexual Trauma Moderate Neurocognitive Performance: A Possible Role for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Apolipoprotein E Variants (2007) (76)
The Neuropsychology of Dreams : A Clinico-anatomical Study (2014) (74)
The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy (2018) (73)
Awareness, Desire, and False Beliefs: Freud in the Light of Modern Neuropsychology (2007) (72)
Inverted Vision After Frontal Lobe Disease (1988) (70)
How and why consciousness arises: Some considerations from physics and physiology (2018) (66)
Neuropsychological status of bipolar I disorder: impact of psychosis (2009) (64)
Neurocognitive function as an endophenotype for genetic studies of bipolar affective disorder (2007) (63)
Opioids: From Physical Pain to the Pain of Social Isolation (2007) (61)
Freud returns. (2004) (57)
Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations (2003) (57)
Précis of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (2021) (54)
What Is Neuropsychoanalysis (2011) (51)
The relationship between childhood abuse and dissociation. Is it influenced by catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) activity? (2008) (51)
Freud’s Theory of Affect: Questions for Neuroscience (1999) (50)
Right hemisphere pathology and the self: Delusional misidentification and reduplication (2005) (49)
Lateralization of hand skill in bipolar affective disorder (2007) (46)
Mentalizing the body: spatial and social cognition in anosognosia for hemiplegia (2016) (46)
Is the content of confabulation positive? An experimental study (2008) (45)
Apolipoprotein E variants and cognition in healthy individuals: A critical opinion (2006) (45)
Examination of the hypothesis that repression is premature automatization: A psychoanalytic case report and discussion (2018) (45)
The scientific standing of psychoanalysis (2018) (44)
What is “the unconscious,” and where is it located in the brain? A neuropsychoanalytic perspective (2017) (44)
Book Review: The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (2018) (43)
The case for neuropsychoanalysis: Why a dialogue with neuroscience is necessary but not sufficient for psychoanalysis (2015) (42)
Self-serving confabulation in prose recall (2008) (41)
Rotated Drawing: The Range of Performance and Anatomical Correlates in a Series of 16 Patients (1998) (40)
Primary-process separation-distress (PANIC/GRIEF) and reward eagerness (SEEKING) processes in the ancestral genesis of depressive affect. (2014) (39)
Prominence of hyperarousal symptoms explains variability of sleep disruption in posttraumatic stress disorder. (2016) (38)
What is the Mind? (2007) (38)
The Interpretation of Dreams and the Neurosciences. (2001) (37)
Anosognosia as motivated unawareness: The ‘defence’ hypothesis revisited (2014) (37)
Investigating the role of social-affective attachment processes in cradling bias: The absence of cradling bias in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2015) (36)
Threat in dreams: An adaptation? (2008) (36)
Is the brain more real than the mind (1995) (36)
The Mind-Brain Relationship (2020) (34)
Depression: A neuropsychoanalytic perspective (2012) (34)
New project for a scientific psychology: General scheme (2020) (34)
The New Neuropsychology of Sleep: Commentary by Mark Solms (London) (1999) (32)
The affective modulation of motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: Behavioural and lesion evidence (2014) (31)
Incidence of Threat in Dreams: A Response to Revonsuo's Threat Simulation Theory. (2004) (31)
Neurobiology and the neurological basis of dreaming. (2011) (29)
A neuropsychoanalytical approach to the hard problem of consciousness. (2014) (29)
Social dominance and the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (2015) (29)
Empathy and moral emotions in post-apartheid South Africa: an fMRI investigation (2017) (29)
What Is Neuropsychoanalysis? (2011) (28)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Confabulation (2000) (28)
[What are affects?]. (1996) (26)
Towards an anatomy of the unconscious. (1996) (23)
Before and after Freud's Project (1998) (23)
Increased Awakenings From Non-rapid Eye Movement Sleep Explain Differences in Dream Recall Frequency in Healthy Individuals (2019) (23)
Improved memory for reward cues following acute buprenorphine administration in humans (2015) (23)
Freud, Luria and the Clinical Method (2000) (22)
The Developing Transference in Amnesia: Changes in Interpersonal Relationship, Despite Profound Episodic-Memory Loss (2006) (22)
Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis (2018) (22)
Developmental science and psychoanalysis. Integration and innovation (2008) (21)
Dreaming: Cholinergic and dopaminergic hypotheses. (2002) (20)
Preliminaries for an integration of psychoanalysis and neuroscience (2018) (19)
NREM sleep stages specifically alter dynamical integration of large-scale brain networks (2020) (18)
Cradling bias is absent in children with autism spectrum disorders (2013) (17)
The Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience of the Unconscious (2006) (17)
A Moment of Transition: Two Neuroscientific Articles by Sigmund Freud (2018) (17)
Neurosciences and psychoanalysis (2002) (17)
Depth Psychological Consequences of Brain Damage (2004) (17)
Approach/avoidance in dreams (2012) (17)
Why Depression Feels Bad (2010) (16)
Effects of early adversity and social discrimination on empathy for complex mental states: An fMRI investigation (2019) (16)
Dissociative Identity Disorder Associated with Mania and Change in Handedness (2004) (15)
Freudian drive theory today (2012) (15)
Beyond Evolutionary Psychology: How and Why Neuropsychological Modules Arise (2017) (15)
Reconsolidation: Turning consciousness into memory. (2015) (14)
Revision of Drive Theory (2021) (14)
The role of the basolateral amygdala in dreaming (2019) (14)
Are Freud’s “Erogenous Zones” Sources or Objects of Libidinal Drive? (2012) (13)
Extracts from the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s complete psychological works (2018) (13)
The “id” knows more than the “ego” admits (2018) (13)
Controversies in Freud Translation (1999) (12)
“The unconscious” in psychoanalysis and neuroscience: an integrated approach to the cognitive unconscious* (2018) (12)
Outcome Research and the Future of Psychoanalysis (2020) (10)
A linkage and family-based association analysis of a potential neurocognitive endophenotype of bipolar disorder (2007) (10)
Basic emotional foundations of social dominance in relation to Panksepp's affective taxonomy (2015) (10)
Changing definitions of euphoria in multiple sclerosis: A short report (2015) (9)
Testosterone administration in women increases the size of their peripersonal space (2020) (9)
Neuropsychological, functional, and behavioral outcome in South African traumatic brain injury litigants. (2013) (9)
Forebrain mechanisms of dreaming are activated from a variety of sources (2000) (9)
Dreaming is not controlled by hippocampal mechanisms. (2013) (9)
The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis (2015) (9)
J. Allan Hobson and Edward Pace-Schott’s Response: Commentary by Mark Solms (London) (2000) (8)
CONSCIOUSNESS BY SURPRISE: A NEUROPSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO THE HARD PROBLEM (2016) (8)
Big Issues, Little Issues… and Non-Issues (2007) (8)
Affective agnosia: a core affective processing deficit in the alexithymia spectrum (2020) (8)
Hand preference is selectively related to common and internal carotid arterial asymmetry (2017) (8)
A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective (2019) (7)
Testosterone facilitates the sense of agency (2017) (7)
Neurocognitive function in an extended Afrikaner-ancestry family with affective illness. (2007) (7)
Memory, amnesia and intuition: a neuro-psychoanalytic perspective (2004) (7)
Structural differences between REM and non-REM dream reports assessed by graph analysis (2020) (6)
The Unconscious: A Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Neuroscience (2016) (6)
A Revision of Freud’s Theory of the Biological Origin of the Oedipus Complex (2021) (6)
Book Review: Emotion (1997) (6)
Freud's “Primary Process” versus Hobson's “Protoconsciousness” (2013) (6)
An Introduction to the Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (2018) (6)
Wilbrand’s Case of “Mind-blindness” (2004) (6)
The Incidence of Euphoria in Multiple Sclerosis: Artefact of Measure (2016) (6)
Reply to Barratt. (2015) (6)
Freudian dream theory today (2018) (6)
4: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to Contemporary Neuroscience (2000) (6)
The establishment of an accredited psychoanalytic training institute in South Africa (2010) (6)
“Freud” and Bullitt: An Unknown Manuscript (2006) (5)
Freudian affect theory today (2012) (4)
Neuropsychoanalytic notes on addiction (2018) (4)
Notes on the revised standard edition. (2013) (4)
A previously-untranslated review by Freud of a monograph on hypnotism. (1989) (4)
Shooting the messenger won’t change the news (2008) (4)
The Freudian unconscious today (2012) (3)
A previously-untranslated report by Freud of a lecture on the mechanism of obsessional ideas and phobias. (1989) (3)
Response to Otto Kernberg (2021) (3)
Reply to Domhoff (2004): Dream Research in the Court of Public Opinion. (2004) (3)
Truly minimal criteria for animal sentience (2022) (3)
Empathy and Other Minds – A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective and a Clinical Vignette (2017) (3)
Opioid Function Is Dysregulated Subsequent to Early Social Trauma: Healthy Young Adults’ Response to a Buprenorphine Challenge (2013) (3)
Response to the commentaries on the “New Project” (2020) (3)
A previously-untranslated review by Freud of a book on the sexual instinct (1990) (2)
The Feeling Brain. Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis. London (Karnac) 2015. (2015) (2)
Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis Revisited (2021) (2)
The Mind and Emotions (2017) (2)
Awareness is in the eye of the observer: Preserved third-person awareness of deficit in anosognosia for hemiplegia (2022) (2)
The case for neuropsychoanalysis (2016) (2)
Separation Distress in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2013) (2)
We agree about the metaneuropsychology of the ego (but not so much about the superego): A commentary on “Revisiting the left convexity hypothesis: Changes in the mental apparatus after left dorso-medial prefrontal damage” by Salas & Yuen (2016) (2)
Problems at the Interface of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. (1993) (2)
Psychoanalysis in Pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation on a South African Farm (2015) (2)
The deeper self: an expanded view of consciousness (2017) (2)
Some innate predictions are social in nature: Commentary on “Mentalizing homeostasis” by Fotopoulou and Tsakiris (2017) (2)
Cerebral Arterial Asymmetries in the Neonate: Insight into the Pathogenesis of Stroke (2022) (2)
Cognitive Impairment in Tuberculous Meningitis (2022) (1)
Response to commentaries (2013) (1)
Editorial: Frontiers in psychodynamic neuroscience (2023) (1)
Dreams and the Hard Problem of Consciousness (2020) (1)
Do You Agree That Freud’s Dream Theory Was Erroneous with Respect to (1) The Genesis of Dreaming (Release of Repressed Infantile Wishes) and (2) The Bizarreness of Dreams (Disguise and Censorship of Unacceptable Wishes)? (2014) (1)
Memory, amnesia and intuition. (2003) (1)
Book Review: AFFECT REGULATION AND THE ORIGIN OF THE SELF: THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT. ByAllan N. Schore. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1994, xxxiv + 670 pp (1997) (1)
Commentary on “The Psychic Apparatus, Metapsychology, and Neuroscience” (2006) (1)
“The unconscious” in psychoanalysis and neuropsychology (2018) (1)
SASOP Biological Psychiatry Congress 2013 Abstracts (2013) (1)
What is affect (2018) (1)
The territory of my body: Testosterone prevents limb cooling in the Rubber Hand Illusion (2018) (1)
The mechanism of the REM state is more than a sum of its parts (2000) (1)
Commentary on Edmund Rolls: ‘Emotion and reason in human decision-making’ (2019) (1)
Psychoanalytic observations on a case of left parietal damage: a man with a shattered world (2018) (1)
Psychoanalysis by surprise (2020) (1)
The Territory of my Body: Testosterone Prevents Limb Cooling in the Rubber Hand Illusion. (2020) (1)
Remembrances of Jaak Panksepp (2017) (1)
Three previously-untranslated reviews by Freud from the Neue Freie Presse. (1989) (1)
Depression in neuropsychoanalysis: why does depression feel bad? (2020) (1)
Happy Reading for a Psychoanalyst (2010) (1)
The Biological Foundations of Gender: a Delicate Balance (2016) (1)
Psychoanalytic observations on five cases of right perisylvian damage: failure of mourning (2018) (1)
The future of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales: A reflection on seven pressing matters (2022) (1)
"Wir und der Tod": a previously untranslated version of a paper by Sigmund Freud on the attitude towards death (2018) (1)
Words and Things: The Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres (2018) (1)
Dreams and Hallucinations (2018) (1)
An example: the neurodynamics of dreaming (2018) (0)
Corrigendum to “The affective modulation of motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: Behavioural and lesion evidence” [Cortex 61 (2014) 127–140] (2015) (0)
Cradling laterality, social adversity and depression: (579192013-287) (2012) (0)
Commentary On Dall’Aglio (2021) (0)
Notes on neuroscientific terminology. (2001) (0)
Ten Patients With Varying Degrees of Confusion Between Dreams and Reality (2014) (0)
A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective: What is Depression for? (2011) (0)
Psychoanalytic observations on a case of Broca’s aphasia: normal mourning (2018) (0)
Bulletin of the International Society for Neuro-psychoanalysis (2002) (0)
A Rare Visuospatial Disorder (2019) (0)
A previously-untranslated review by Freud of an article reporting an hypnotic experiment (1990) (0)
Emotions and traumas (2018) (0)
Great expectations (2021) (0)
Adrienne and Sanjay–progressive disorganisation and somatisations: the emergence of irreversible unstable equilibria (2018) (0)
Emotion and Motivation (2018) (0)
Psychoanalytic observations on a case of Wernicke’s aphasia: perforated consciousness (2018) (0)
Chapter 31 – Dreaming in Neurologic Disorders (2009) (0)
Towards a neuroanatomy of the mental apparatus (2018) (0)
Sleep and Dreaming: Open Peer Commentary (2003) (0)
Pilot Study: REM Quality, Dream Recall and Sleep-maintenance in Patients with PCA stokes (2014) (0)
Editors’ Introduction (2005) (0)
Book Review:Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind Patricia Kitcher (1995) (0)
Editors’ Introduction (2004) (0)
The Brainstem Begs the Question : “ Petitio Principii ” Commentary (2013) (0)
Commentaries (1997) (0)
The scientific basis of psychoanalysis (2020) (0)
Bulletin of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society (2001) (0)
Bulletin of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society (2001) (0)
On: Psychoanalysis in South Africa (2014) (0)
Justifying psychoanalysis (2013) (0)
Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues (1998) (0)
marking failure of winner-take-all in incoherent activation of multiple competitors. (Dreams show comparable multiple activation but serving homeostatic optimization during sleep.) The activations associated with the ego, superego, and id are a further special case, hypothesized in virtue of Freud’s (2012) (0)
Consciousness and the Unconscious (2018) (0)
Reply to Commentaries (2022) (0)
Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues (1998) (0)
Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues (1998) (0)
The Self and the Neurobiology of the “Talking Cure” (2018) (0)
Claims of Innate Modularity (2017) (0)
Do unconscious phantasies really exist? 1 (2018) (0)
How to persue the emerging dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience : clinical and research perspectives. The Characterisation of brain activity during sleep and dreams with FMRI (2004) (0)
Table of Commentators (2003) (0)
Psychoanalysis and neurosciences: a particular parcours: interview with Mark Leonard De Gier Solms (1996) (0)
Further Theoretical Remarks (2014) (0)
What is the “mind”? A neuropsychoanalytic approach (2018) (0)
Luria and the Clinical Method (2012) (0)
The psychotherapy of somatic patients–the case of Nina, a woman from the Maghreb (2018) (0)
The primary concern of neuropsychoanalysis (2014) (0)
The Classic Case Reports of Charcot–Wilbrand Syndrome (2014) (0)
On the Dark Side of Chronic Depression (2022) (0)
Psychoanalysis and the origins of dynamic neuropsychology: the work of Luria (2018) (0)
Hierarchy, Modularity, and Development (2017) (0)
The future of psychoanalysis in neuroscience: a methodological proposal (2018) (0)
Regional Bulletins (2000) (0)
The Effect of Testosterone on the Sense of Agency (2018) (0)
Neuronal networks and metapsychology. (1998) (0)
The economic viewpoint and mentalisation processes (2018) (0)
Mind and Brain—How do they Relate? (2018) (0)
Psychopharmacology 2003 Conference, 10-13 September 2003 (2003) (0)
Editors’ Introduction (2001) (0)
Review of the Cognitive-emotional brain: From interactions to integration and The feeling body: Affective neuroscience meets the enactive mind. (2017) (0)
The Future and Neuro-Psychoanalysis (2018) (0)
Psychoanalytic observations on four cases of ventromesial frontal damage: “the end of the world” (2018) (0)
Book Review (2004) (0)
A Realistic View of Evolution, Development, and Emotions (2017) (0)
Is the concept of affective agnosia a useful addition to the alexithymia literature? (2021) (0)
Editors’ Introduction (2000) (0)
Chapter 2 What Is Neuropsychoanalysis ? (2019) (0)
From depth neuropsychology to neuropsychoanalysis (2021) (0)
Amanda, Arnaud, Alice, Sandrine and Emma–somatisations and regressions (2018) (0)
10 Neuropsychoanalytic notes on addiction (2011) (0)
Showing results from follow-up analysis partialling out number of paragraphs. (2020) (0)
Empirical Studies on Freud's Dream Theory (fMRI and Polysomography); Neurosciences : an open window for current interdisciplinary research" (2001) (0)
Running Head: A NEW APPROACH TO VISUOSPATIAL DYSFUNCTION IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS A New Approach to Visuospatial Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis (2018) (0)
Putting the psyche into neuropsychology (2018) (0)
Sleep and Dreaming: References (2003) (0)
Studying Experimentally Freud's Dream Theory. Meeting "Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences" (2001) (0)
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Mental Development (2018) (0)
Memory and Phantasy (2018) (0)
Sleep and Dreaming: Preface (2003) (0)
The investigation of mental processes (dreaming?) during sleep with fmri-technique (2004) (0)
The historical origins of psychoanalysis in neuroscience (2018) (0)
Obituary: Arnold Z. Pfeffer (2002) (0)
The Role of Dreaming in Affect Regulation (2022) (0)
Introduction to Basic Concepts (2018) (0)
Dreaming in Neurological Disorders (2017) (0)
Interpretation of dreams and neuroscience (2019) (0)
An example of neuropsychoanalytic research: Korsakoff’s syndrome (2018) (0)
Sleep and Dreaming: Authors' Responses (2003) (0)
Beyond egocentric and allocentric : Tracing developmental changes in landmark use with virtual reality 3 : 30 Tea 4 : 00 (2016) (0)
The Mind-brain Relationship the Mind-brain Relationship British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data (0)
Books Received (2003) (0)
Dreams in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A study on the effects of amygdala activation on emotion in dreaming (2014) (0)

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