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In the area of schizophrenia, McCarley has studied brain abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia. McCarley and Martha
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of dreaming that said that dreams do not have meanings and are the result of the brain attempting to make sense of random neuronal firing in the cortex. McCarley has extensively studied the
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Hobson JA, McCarley RW. The brain as a dream state generator: an activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process. Am J Psychiatry. 1977 Dec;134(12):1335-48
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McCarley has been presented with many awards for his research. In 1998, he received
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