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Michael J Brammer

4 papers in the library · 226 citations · publishing 2006-2016

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Emotional Experience and Awareness of Self: Functional MRI Studies of Depersonalization Disorder.

Frontiers in Psychology 2016 Nick Medford, Mauricio Sierra, Argyris Stringaris et al.

This paper presents functional MRI work on emotional processing in depersonalization disorder (DPD). This relatively neglected disorder is hallmarked by a disturbing change in the quality of first-person experience, almost invariably encompassing a diminished sense of self and an alteration in emotional experience such that the sufferer feels less emotionally reactive, with emotions experienced...

Ketamine induces a robust whole-brain connectivity pattern that can be differentially modulated by drugs of different mechanism and clinical profile

Psychopharmacology May 19, 2015 R. Joules, O. Doyle, A. J. Schwarz et al. 77 citations

Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist, has been studied in relation to the glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia and increases dissociation, positive and negative symptom ratings. Ketamine effects brain function through changes in brain activity; these activity patterns can be modulated by pre-treatment of compounds known to attenuate the effects of ketamine on glutamate...

Modulating the Default Mode Network Using Hypnosis

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis March 24, 2012 Quinton Deeley, David A Oakley, Brian Toone et al. 149 citations

Debate regarding the neural basis of the hypnotic state continues, but a recent hypothesis suggests that it may produce alterations in the default mode network (DMN). DMN describes a network of brain regions more active during low-demand compared to high-demand task conditions and has been linked to processes such as task-independent thinking, episodic memory, semantic processing, and...

Evidence against functionalism from neuroimaging of the alien colour effect in synaesthesia.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior February 1, 2006 Jeffrey A Gray, David M Parslow, Michael J Brammer et al.

Coloured hearing synaesthetes experience colours to heard words, as confirmed by reliability of self-report, psychophysical testing and functional neuroimaging data. Some also describe the 'alien colour effect' (ACE): in response to colour names, they experience colours different from those named. We have previously reported that the ACE slows colour naming in a Stroop task, reflecting...