European Journal of Pharmacology
March 10, 2010
Ouafa Arib, Pascal Rat, Robert Molimard et al.
It has been suggested that the beta-carbolines harmane and norharmane may be involved in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease, psychosis and addiction, but the mechanisms of these possible effects remain to be elucidated. In the present study, the effects of the two compounds were examined by using in vivo extracellular recordings of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. The effects of...
PLoS One
March 10, 2010
Po‐jang Hsieh, Peter Ulric Tse
4 citations
UNLABELLED: Under conditions of visual fixation, perceptual fading occurs when a stationary object, though present in the world and continually casting light upon the retina, vanishes from visual consciousness. The neural correlates of the consciousness of such an object will presumably modulate in activity with the onset and cessation of perceptual fading. METHOD: In order to localize the...
British Journal of Pharmacology
March 3, 2010
James R. Docherty, Ar Green
88 citations
Hyperthermia is probably the most widely known acute adverse event that can follow ingestion of 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) by recreational users. The effect of MDMA on body temperature is complex because the drug has actions on all three major monoamine neurotransmitters [5‐hydroxytryptamine (5‐HT), dopamine and noradrenaline], both by amine release and by direct receptor...
Transformative Dialogues Teaching and Learning Journal
March 1, 2010
Sean S. Park, Avraham Cohen
Drawing from practices of mindfulness, martial arts, and psychotherapy, we present a dialogue and inquiry into how educators can attend to experience through inner work.It is our conviction that schools that undertake education as a participatory endeavour in both knowledge and knowing, having and being, will depend greatly on our capacity, as educators, to see and attend to the different, yet...
The European Journal of Psychiatry
March 1, 2010
Péter Simor, Szilvia Csóka, Róbert Bódizs
35 citations
Background and Objectives: Previous studies reported a high prevalence of nightmares and dream anxiety in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the severity of dream disturbances correlated with daytime symptoms of psychopathology. However, the majority of these results are based on retrospective questionnaire-based study designs, and hence the effect of recall biases (characteristic for...
Mindfulness
March 1, 2010
Thorsten Barnhofer, Tobias Chittka, Helen Nightingale et al.
99 citations
We investigated state effects of two forms of meditation on electroencephalography prefrontal α-asymmetry, a global indicator of approach versus withdrawal motivation and related affective state. A clinical series of previously depressed individuals were guided to practice either mindfulness breathing meditation (N = 8) or a form of meditation directly aimed at cultivating positive affect,...
The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
March 1, 2010
M R Lee
20 citations
The period 1940-80 in the history of ergot was dominated by two investigators, Arthur Stoll and Albert Hofmann. There was great excitement when their group isolated from ergot preparations the powerful psychotropic agent lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). It was thought that this substance would help to find the cause of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, but it would prove to be a...
Psychopharmacology
February 19, 2010
Clinton E. Canal, U. B. Olaghere da Silva, Paul J Gresch et al.
111 citations
RationaleHallucinogenic serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptor partial agonists, such as (±)-1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane hydrochloride (DOI), induce a frontal cortex-dependent head-twitch response (HTR) in rodents, a behavioral proxy of a hallucinogenic response that is blocked by 5-HT2A receptor antagonists. In addition to 5-HT2A receptors, DOI and most other serotonin-like...
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
February 18, 2010
Douglas E. Webb, Joen Fagan
10 citations
Subjects reporting a recurring dream at least 4 times a month for a year or more were assigned to a dream recording control group and an experimental group which used muscle testing to guide dream interpretation. Dream frequency was recorded prior to and following a dream interpretation intervention (experimental subjects) or dream reporting session (control subjects). Dream frequency declined...
European Journal of Pharmacology
February 10, 2010
Roman Paškulin, Polona Jamnik, Natasa Obermajer et al.
13 citations
Ibogaine has been extensively studied in the last decades in relation to its anti-addictive properties that have been repeatedly reported as being addiction interruptive and craving eliminative. In our previous study we have already demonstrated induction of energy related enzymes in rat brains treated with ibogaine at a dose of 20mg/kg i.p. 24 and 72 h prior to proteomic analysis. In this...