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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Mark Solms is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with an emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, social psychology, philosophy, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including embodied and extended cognition, mental health and psychiatry, action observation and synchronization, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, psychotherapy techniques and applications, sleep and wakefulness research, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Mark Solms has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, most notably:

  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
  • Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Symmetry

A selection of recent papers by Mark Solms includes:

  • New project for a scientific psychology: General scheme (2020), published in Neuropsychoanalysis
  • Précis of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (2021), published in Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • Revision of Drive Theory (2021), published in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Joshua M. Martin
  • Natália Bezerra Mota
  • Sérgio Mota-Rolim
  • John Fontenele Araújo
  • Sidarta Ribeiro

The range of Mark Solms's research reflects an integration of psychological theory and neuroscience methods, contributing to understanding consciousness, drive theory, and brain function during sleep.

Best Publications

  • The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

    Mark Solms;Oliver Turnbull

  • The neuropsychology of dreams : a clinico-anatomical study

    Mark Solms

  • Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms.

    Mark Solms

  • Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology

    Karen Kaplan-Solms;Mark Solms

  • The "id" knows more than the "ego" admits: neuropsychoanalytic and primal consciousness perspectives on the interface between affective and cognitive neuroscience

    Mark Solms;Jaak Panksepp

  • The Conscious Id

    Mark Solms

  • The molecular genetics of cognition: dopamine, COMT and BDNF

    J. Savitz;M. Solms;R. Ramesar

  • What Is Consciousness

    Mark Solms

  • Neuropsychological dysfunction in bipolar affective disorder: a critical opinion.

    Jonathan Savitz;Mark Solms;Rajkumar Ramesar

  • New findings on the neurological organization of dreaming: implications for psychoanalysis.

    Mark Solms

  • The neural substrates of mindfulness: An fMRI investigation

    Victoria L Ives-Deliperi;Mark Solms;Ernesta M Meintjes

  • On psychoanalysis and neuroscience: Freud's attitude to the localizationist tradition.

    Mark Solms;Michael Saling

  • What is neuropsychoanalysis? Clinically relevant studies of the minded brain

    Jaak Panksepp;Mark Solms

  • The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle.

    Mark Solms

  • Reconciling cognitive and affective neuroscience perspectives on the brain basis of emotional experience.

    Jaak Panksepp;Richard D Lane;Mark Solms;Ryan Smith

  • How and why consciousness arises: Some considerations from physics and physiology

    M Solms;K Friston

  • Affective neuroscientific and neuropsychoanalytic approaches to two intractable psychiatric problems: why depression feels so bad and what addicts really want.

    Margaret R. Zellner;Douglas F. Watt;Douglas F. Watt;Mark Solms;Jaak Panksepp

  • Wishful reality distortions in confabulation: a case report.

    Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Mark Solms;Mark Solms;Oliver Turnbull

  • The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy.

    Mark Leonard Solms

  • Das Gehirn und die innere Welt : Neurowissenschaft und Psychoanalyse

    Mark Solms;Oliver Turnbull;Elisabeth Vorspohl

  • Neuropsychological task performance in bipolar spectrum illness: genetics, alcohol abuse, medication and childhood trauma.

    Jonathan B Savitz;Lize van der Merwe;Dan J Stein;Mark Solms

  • Awareness, desire, and false beliefs: Freud in the light of modern neuropsychology.

    Oliver H. Turnbull;Mark Solms

  • Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis

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Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver H. Turnbull
Oliver H. Turnbull Bangor University
Jack van Honk
Jack van Honk Utrecht University
Aikaterini Fotopoulou
Aikaterini Fotopoulou University College London
Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp Washington State University
George F. R. Ellis
George F. R. Ellis University of Cape Town
Kevin G. F. Thomas
Kevin G. F. Thomas University of Pretoria
Michael D. Kopelman
Michael D. Kopelman King's College London
Michael M. Saling
Michael M. Saling University of Melbourne
Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff University of Ottawa
Martin A. Conway
Martin A. Conway City, University of London

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