Psychological Assessment
March 2023
Yuval Hadash, Liad Ruimi, Amit Bernstein
Training attention and awareness in mindfulness meditation is theorized to be essential for the cultivation of mindfulness and its salutary outcomes. Yet, the empirical foundation for this central premise in mindfulness science is surprisingly small due to a limited methodological capacity to measure attention and awareness during mindfulness meditation. Accordingly, we set out to measure and...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
E. Bergaoui, R. Lansari, O. Chehaider et al.
IntroductionCannabis use is frequent among patients with psychotic disorders. However, the relationship between cannabis consumption and transition to psychosis has not been fully elucidated.ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of cannabis use in first episode psychosis and its correlation with transistion to psychosis and severity of symptoms.MethodsA cross-sectional...
Current Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
Marija S. Marković
1 citation
Savvy Psychopharmacology M r.D, age 41, presents to the emergency department (ED) with altered mental status and suspected intoxication.His medical history includes alcohol use disorder and spinal injury.Upon initial examination, he is confused, disorganized, and agitated.He receives IM lorazepam 4 mg to manage his agitation.His laboratory workup includes a negative screening for blood alcohol,...
Experimental and therapeutic medicine
March 2023
Octavian Vasiliu
Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is a challenge for psychiatrists, even after more than seven decades since the first antidepressants were used in clinical practice. Non-monoaminergic-based drugs with antidepressant properties have been developed, but to date, only esketamine and brexanolone have been approved for TRD and postpartum depression, respectively. A narrative review on the...
March 1, 2023
Erik Rietveld
Perception is often understood as an individual's mirroring of the objects in the world 'out there' .The influential ecological psychologist James Gibson (1904Gibson ( -1979) ) wanted to avoid such a division between subject and object.He developed a new account of the perception of the environment that breaks with the idea of static mirroring and rather makes activity central.According to...
Biosystems
March 1, 2023
Hana Hebishima, Mina Arakaki, Chikako Dozono et al.
To propose a mathematical model of consciousness and will, we first simulated the inverted qualia with a toy model of a neural network. As a result, we confirmed that there can be an inverted qualia on the neural network. In other words, the qualia were individual-dependent and considered difficult as an indicator of consciousness and will. To solve that difficulty, we introduce a probability...
Journal of Addiction Medicine
March 1, 2023
Transitions from high-dose methadone to buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) present risk of precipitated withdrawal related to the introduction of a high-affinity partial agonist at the mu-opioid receptor after occupancy by a lower-affinity full agonist. Various strategies have been explored to maintain patient stability during this process, including microdosing...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
S. Kamrun, T. Sultana, F. Faruki et al.
Introduction There has been an increase in the use of new psychoactive substances containing synthetic cannabinoids in recent years. It is also known as K2, spice, or fake weed, and these are popular as recreational drugs [Kourouni I et al. JAMA NetW Open 2020 Jul; 1;3(7): e208516]. CB1 agonists in SCs mimic the effects of cannabis, making users feel happy and relaxed. However, recreational SCs...
Scientific Reports
March 1, 2023
Paweł Orłowski, Michał Bola
9 citations
Diversity of brain activity is a robust neural correlate of global states of consciousness. It has been proposed that diversity measures specifically reflect the temporal variability of conscious experience. Previous studies supported this hypothesis by showing that perception of meaningful visual stimuli causes richer, more-variable experiences than perception of meaningless stimuli, and this...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2023
Charles D. Laughlin
1 citation
AbstractOur species of hominin, Homo sapiens, is an extremely social animal. We are born with social brains. The phenomenology of Edmund Husserl is a methodological approach to social consciousness that offers significant advantages in terms of uncovering and describing the essential structures of our social perceptions and actions. This is especially true in this period of post‐neuro‐turn...