Brain Connectivity
January 3, 2018
Zack Y Shan, Kevin Finegan, Sandeep Bhuta et al.
The chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis is a debilitating disease with unknown pathophysiology and no diagnostic test. This study investigated the default mode network (DMN) to understand the pathophysiology of CFS and to identify potential biomarkers. Using functional MRI (fMRI) collected from 72 subjects (45 CFS and 27 controls) with a temporal resolution of 0.798 sec, we...
Comparative Philosophy An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy
January 2, 2018
Matthew Mackenzie
1 citation
According to Vasubandhu’s Trisvabhāvanirdeśa or Treatise on the Three Natures, experiential phenomena can be understood in terms of three natures: the constructed (parikalpita), the dependent (paratantra), and the consummate (pariniṣpanna). This paper will examine internalist and anti-internalist or non-dualist interpretations of the Yogācāra theory of the three natures of experience. The...
Cultura y Droga
January 2, 2018
Jacques Mabit
Mientras el Perú construyó la magnífica civilización Inca mediante la sabiduría proporcionada por la hoja de coca, se volvió luego el primer productor de derivados tóxicos de esta planta profanada. Hoy en día, de nuevo, la hoja de coca permite tratar la adicción a la cocaína y así lo demuestra la experiencia del Centro Takiwasi. Asimismo, se descubre hace unos decenios el uso sanador de la...
Middle West review
2018
Bill R. Douglas
Reviewed by: Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa by Joseph Weber Bill R. Douglas Joseph Weber, Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014. 221 pp. $18.00. When I volunteered to review books on religion and the Midwest for this journal, little did I...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição
2018
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
1 citation
During meditation, consciousness/awareness is usually enhanced because of higher attention and concentration, which inter-dependently co-arise thru appropriate interactions between neural signals. Nāgārjuna rejects ‘inherent existence’ or ‘essence’ in favor of co-dependent origination (Pratītyasamutpāda), and that is also why he rejects causality; the entities that lack inherent existence...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição
2018
César Fernando Meurer
Can a lonely long-distance run instantiate a meditation? Based on personal experience with running, I develop an affirmative answer to this question. First, I distinguish contemplation from meditation, proposing that the former is a non-reflexive activity focused on the monitoring of one’s own body, and that the latter is a reflexive activity that includes a “self” in memories of episodes from...
ANU Open Research
2018
Tjanara Goreng Goreng
3 citations
Robert Kegan says that sacred leadership is a particular order of consciousness that applies to people who have navigated their emotional stages of development to become individuals who go beyond the ego to become ‘sacred’ in their thinking and being. They are leaders who motivate and inspire others to follow them. In Aboriginal communities in Australia, Elders have always been considered...
PEARL
2018
Jane Grant
This thesis for PhD by Publication presents artworks and writing that propose and create ‘other worlds’. Many of the artworks and writing engage scientific concepts, both historical and contemporary, however it is the phenomenological aspects of these ideas that are engaged. The research mostly deals with the infinitesimal and the distant, neuroscience, astrophysics and sometimes both. It also...
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review
2018
Małgorzata Koziarska-Rościszewska, Aleksandra Piątek, Katarzyna Kobza-Sindlewska et al.
6 citations
analysis, D -data interpretation, E -Manuscript Preparation, F -literature search, G -Funds collectionBackground. dextromethorphan (dXM) is a widely used over-the-counter antitussive drug. in supratherapeutic doses, it exerts psychoactive effects.Use of dXM seems very common among people seeking 'illegal or legal highs'.Objectives. the aim of the study is to assess the social and psychological...
Methods in enzymology
2018
Harry Scheinin, Emilee C Alkire, Annalotta Scheinin et al.
Functional neuroimaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is one of the cornerstones for studying the central nervous system effects of general anesthetics and anesthesia mechanisms. General anesthesia offers a unique and safe way to directly manipulate consciousness, and can thus be used as a powerful research tool to study the neurobiology of human consciousness. In this chapter, we...