To examine the prevalence and phenomenological manifestations of sleep paralysis among medical students. A total of 499 senior medical students were surveyed. The mean age of the participants was 22.64±2.3 years; 71.34% were female. The Unusual Sleep Experiences Questionnaire (USEQ) was used. Sleep paralysis (SP) is prevalent among medical students. A total of 169 (33.9%) students reported...
The article highlights the stable characteristics of the world of dreams/visions, which is revealed to Hoffmann's visionaries in borderline, «twilight» states (half-asleep, intoxication, creative ecstasy, fever). Hoffmann sees in it not a closed, escapist «other-reality» but one of the two constitutive modes of perception, which has a common denotation and a common source with the «everyday»...
Depression is a leading cause of disability and reduced work capacity worldwide. The monoamine theory of the pathogenesis of depression has remained dominant for many decades, however, drugs developed on its basis have limited efficacy. Exploring alternative mechanisms underlying this pathology could illuminate new avenues for pharmacological intervention. Targeting glutamatergic pathways in...
The spiritual possession phenomenon (SPP), is a complex transnosological, transcultural syndrome, which is based on the patients' perception that some spiritual entity (spirit, demon, jinn, shaitan, «ikotka», dybbuk, Buddha, etc.) is influencing or possessing them. Modern classifications of diseases, aimed at expanding our ideas about the distinction between the norm and pathology of mental...
To identify the specifics of psychopathology and phenomenology of religious experience in depressed patients, for early diagnosis of mental disorders masked by a «religious facade», and prevention of suicidal activity. The study included 115 patients (41 men, 74 women) with depression contained religious distress in affective disorders (38 observations) and schizophrenia (77 observations),...
In this paper, the authors review experimental data on the ability to perceive the passage of time during wakefulness and sleep. The evolutionary significance of the sense of time and its role in cognitive functions is discussed. Recent findings on neural mechanisms underlying perception and estimation of time as well as temporal order judgments are described. Similarities and differences of...
To analyze psychopathological features of religious delusion of possession, determine the place of this phenomenon in psychotic syndrome, and identify the prognosis and dynamics of schizophrenia due to this disorder. Thirteen patients with religious delusion of possession were examined in 1994-2016 by psychopathological and follow-up methods. Hallucinations of a general feeling are the crucial...
This review analyzes the works of Russian psychiatrists on the relationship between religion and clinical psychiatry. Beginning from the first half of the 19th century a lot of Russian psychiatrists in their writings dealt with the issues of religiosity and mental health as well as with psychopathology and clinical studies of mental states with a religious delusion. They studied...
Aim: To identify clinical and psychopathological features, conditions of formation and prognostic significance of delusions with religious content in endogenous psychotic states in adolescence. Material and methods: Fifty-three male patients, aged from 16 to 25 years, with juvenile endogenous psychosis, with a psychotic episode with religious content of delusion were examined. Clinical,...