Neurology and Neuroscience
February 2, 2026
W. Krömer
The present opinion article first discusses the fundamental basis of self-consciousness (self-awareness).The biological situation is then compared to artificial systems. Actually, the deficiencies of artificial systems will highlight the key features of biological systems. Biological self-consciousness requires an individual to whom something can become conscious, which basically depends on the...
Neurology and Neuroscience
December 30, 2025
Julian Ungar-Sargon
This article proposes a radical reframing of dementia from biomedical catastrophe to potentialspiritual blessing, drawing upon five decades of neurological practice, Jewish mystical tradition, andcontemporary person-centered care philosophy. Challenging the prevailing discourse that equatescognitive decline with loss of personhood, this work integrates the Talmudic teaching of Niddah...
Neurology and Neuroscience
June 30, 2025
Ashok Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Consciousness never sleeps. During sleep consciousness is engaged in quality assurance of rest for the system psyche, nervous system, and other systems of the body through a mammoth of silent activities. Neural correlates of sleep are important but not sufficient to understand sleep. The article discusses several models of the psyche participating in the mechanism of sleep. The models also...
Neurology and Neuroscience
September 30, 2024
Nabil Ahmed Numan
Psychosis, characterized by hallucinations and delusions, is a common feature of psychiatric disease, especially schizophrenia. In the case of psychosis, the subject suffers from delusion (false beliefs) and hallucination (false perception); the impression for non-specialists is schizophrenia. In this presentation the patient has both delusion (false belief) and hallucination (false...
Neurology and Neuroscience
December 30, 2023
Louis N Irwin
Notwithstanding the power of the cell assembly concept, which holds that specific patterns of neuronal activity constitute the substrate of perceptual awareness that rises into consciousness, a explanatory gap remains between the phenomenological experience of consciousness and the brain processes from which that experience arises. A number of compelling and insightful theories have been...