Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
October 27, 2016
Ananya Mahapatra, Rishi Gupta
37 citations
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring alkaloid, pharmacologically similar to the classic hallucinogen lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Although primarily used as a recreational drug or an entheogen in particular cultural settings, recent population based studies have shown that it does not lead to serious physical or mental health problems or dependent use. In view of recent work demonstrating...
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
October 24, 2016
Luke Kersten
The assumption that psychological states and processes are computational in character pervades much of cognitive science, what many call the computational theory of mind. In addition to occupying a central place in cognitive science, the computational theory of mind has also had a second life supporting "individualism", the view that psychological states should be taxonomized so as to supervene...
October 24, 2016
M. Balzer
To honor the broad ranging legacy of Åke Hultkranz, this article focuses on the changing social and political ramifications of indigenous people’s spiritual revitalization in Siberia. My approach balances Hultkrantz’s sensitivity to commonalities of shamanism throughout the circumpolar North with attention to more specific aspects of shamanistic practices and beliefs in Far Eastern Siberia,...
Victorian Network
October 22, 2016
Patricia Beesley (Newcastle University)
As far as nineteenth-century mathematician and writer Charles Howard Hinton was concerned, it was an unwillingness to explore beyond the boundaries of established epistemologies that prevented the conception of a fourth dimension or hyperspace. In this essay, I consider how Hinton employs the allegory of hyperspace to re-imagine women as transcendent. In the novellas, Stella and An Unfinished...
Oxford University Press eBooks
October 20, 2016
Yujin Nagasawa, Khai Wager
79 citations
This chapter explicates a version of holistic panpsychism, “priority cosmopsychism,” which is understood as a holistic alternative to classical micropanpsychism. Priority cosmopsychism inherits the idea that there is—ontologically speaking—the whole as well as its respective parts from Schafferian priority monism. Despite this quasi-realistic concept of the respective parts, priority monists...
Cell
October 20, 2016
Tian Hua, Kiran Vemuri, Mengchen Pu et al.
Cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) is the principal target of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive chemical from Cannabis sativa with a wide range of therapeutic applications and a long history of recreational use. CB1 is activated by endocannabinoids and is a promising therapeutic target for pain management, inflammation, obesity, and substance abuse disorders. Here, we present the 2.8 Å...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
October 16, 2016
Michael P. Bogenschutz, Alyssa A. Forcehimes
96 citations
Research activity on the potential clinical value of classic hallucinogens and other psychedelics has increased markedly in the past two decades, and promises to continue to expand. Experimental study of hallucinogen-assisted treatment, and any future clinical use, requires the development of psychotherapeutic models that are appropriate to the disorder being treated and effectively integrated...
The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
October 10, 2016
Steven F. Grieco, Dmitry Velmeshev, M. Magistri et al.
Abstract Objectives: We examined mechanisms that contribute to the rapid antidepressant effect of ketamine in mice that is dependent on glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) inhibition. Methods: We measured serotonergic (5HT)-2C-receptor (5HTR2C) cluster microRNA (miRNA) levels in mouse hippocampus after administering an antidepressant dose of ketamine (10 mg/kg) in wild-type and GSK3 knockin mice,...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
October 7, 2016
Joachim Richter, Roya Ostovar
The functions of dance and music in human evolution are a mystery. Current research on the evolution of music has mainly focused on its melodic attribute which would have evolved alongside (proto-)language. Instead, we propose an alternative conceptual framework which focuses on the co-evolution of rhythm and dance (R&D) as intertwined aspects of a multimodal phenomenon characterized by the...
Revista de medicina de la Universidad de Navarra
October 7, 2016
Luis Gutiérrez-Rojas
9 citations
Esta es la segunda parte de una revisión sobre los efectos adversos que presenta el consumo de cannabis sobre la salud de los jóvenes. La primera parte trató sobre los efectos adversos para la salud física y esta segunda parte trata de los efectos adversos sobre la salud psíquica. El cannabis ha sido considerado a veces como una droga relativamente menos peligrosa que otras, y además se le han...