Salud Colectiva
July 24, 2018
David Dupuis
17 citations
El creciente interés de los occidentales por la bebida psicotrópica ayahuasca y la participacion en rituales exóticos ha llevado en las últimas décadas a la multiplicación de los “centros chamánicos” en la Amazonía peruana. Entre estos, el centro Takiwasi es una comunidad terapéutica que acoge cada año a cientos de clientes nacionales y extranjeros. Esta institución, creada por un médico...
July 20, 2018
Adam Green
The extended mind thesis holds that the mental is not restricted to what happens in the brain. Rather, one can think of the extended mind thesis as an outgrowth of broader, physicalist commitments. In particular, views of the mental that tie it very strongly to consciousness seem to be in a position to resist the extension of mind. One way of taking the origin and force of the extended mind...
Journal of Biological Chemistry
July 20, 2018
Scott C. Farrow, Mohamed O. Kamileen, Jessica Meades et al.
55 citations
Monoterpenoid indole alkaloids are a large (∼3000 members) and structurally diverse class of metabolites restricted to a limited number of plant families in the order Gentianales. Tabernanthe iboga or iboga (Apocynaceae) is native to western equatorial Africa and has been used in traditional medicine for centuries. Howard Lotsof is credited with bringing iboga to the attention of Western...
Behavioural Brain Research
July 16, 2018
María P García-Pardo, José Miñarro, María A. Aguilar
Currently, there is not an effective treatment for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) dependence but pharmacotherapies targeting glutamate neurotransmission are a promising strategy. Previously, we showed that blockade of glutamate NMDA and AMPA receptors impairs the conditioned rewarding effects of MDMA and cocaine, respectively. In this study we evaluated the role of AMPA receptors in...
Neuropharmacology
July 15, 2018
Daniel G Barrus, Timothy W Lefever, Jenny L Wiley
Edible cannabis-infused products are an increasingly popular method of using cannabis in the United States. Yet, preclinical research to determine mechanisms underlying abuse of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive constituent of cannabis, has focused primarily on the effects of parenteral administration. The purpose of this study was to examine the rewarding and aversive...
Journal des adolescens
July 13, 2018
Helena Moreira, Maria C Canavarro
The current study aims to investigate whether mindful parenting and adolescents' dispositional mindfulness differ as a function of maternal anxiety and depressive symptoms and to explore the moderating role of these symptoms on the relationship between mindful parenting and adolescents' dispositional mindfulness. A sample of 685 mother-adolescent dyads was collected in Portuguese public...
BMC Psychiatry
July 12, 2018
Kathryn Fletcher, Fiona Foley, Neil Thomas et al.
39 citations
BACKGROUND: The primary objective of this randomised controlled trial (RCT) is to establish the effectiveness of a novel online quality of life (QoL) intervention tailored for people with late stage (≥ 10 episodes) bipolar disorder (BD) compared with psychoeducation. Relative to early stage individuals, this late stage group may not benefit as much from existing psychosocial treatments. The...
Forum Philosophicum
July 11, 2018
Józef Bremer, Dariusz Adamek
The goal of this article is to review some aspects of brain anatomy and neurophysiology that are important for consciousness, and which hopefully may be of benefit to philosophers investigating the conscious mind. Taking as an initial point of reference the distinction between “the hard problem” and “the weak problems” of consciousness, we shall concentrate on questions pertaining to the second...
Oxford Handbooks Online
July 10, 2018
Alexander Schnell
The thesis of this chapter consists in putting forward the idea that, from the point of view of their speculative foundation, the works of the founding fathers of phenomenology (Husserl and Heidegger) admit of a unity, the nature of which is clarified by certain crucial contributions from German idealism. The perspective that the author is concerned to develop consists in attempting to show...
Journal of Surgery and Medicine
July 10, 2018
Nadiye Karabulut, Ayşe Seda Demirel Dengi, Sündüs Görükmez et al.
1 citation
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of bonzai by assessing the correlation between the clinical and laboratory findings of cases diagnosed with bonsai intoxication who had been monitored in the emergency service.Methods: This study was approved by ‘’Haseki Training and Research Hospital Ethical Committee of Non-Pharmacological Studies’’ with approval number of:183 on...