Death Studies
February 23, 2005
Bruce Greyson
11 citations
Some persons who claim to have had near-death experiences (NDEs) fail research criteria for having had NDEs ("false positives"); others who deny having had NDEs do meet research criteria for having had NDEs ("false negatives"). The author evaluated false positive claims and false negative denials in an organization that promotes near-death research and in psychiatric outpatients. The frequency...
Medical journal, Armed Forces India
February 2005
S Chaudhury, S Sudarsanan, S K Salujha et al.
Cannabis abuse has been associated with psychiatric disorders. The pattern of cannabis use and incidence of cannabis dependence and cannabis psychosis among 471 consecutive patients admitted to a tertiary care psychiatric center was investigated. Cannabis use was reported by 67 (14.23%) patients of whom 42 (8.92%) were occasional users, 18 (3.82%) were classified as frequent users while 7...
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
February 1, 2005
Peter J. Zed
1 citation
Drug and substance abuse is a major problem in North America. Health care providers who care for patients who abuse drugs and other substances need to have a clear understanding of the health, societal, and economic impact of this problem and an intimate knowledge of the agents of abuse to ensure adequate treatment. Pagliaros' Comprehensive Guide to Drugs and Substances of Abuse was written to...
Psychiatric News
January 21, 2005
Eve Bender
4 citations
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Clinical & Research NewsFull AccessFDA Approves Study of Ecstasy In Some Terminally Ill PatientsEve BenderEve BenderPublished Online:21 Jan 2005https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.40.2.00400046a Can the same drug that in the past decade has found a niche among young people during rave parties at crowded dance clubs also help terminally ill patients...
Journal of Neuroscience
January 12, 2005
Mark J. Hunt, Karima Kessal, Rene Garcia
Noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonists, such as ketamine, induce a transient schizophrenia-like state in healthy individuals and exacerbate psychosis in schizophrenic patients. In rodents, noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonists induce a behavioral syndrome that represents an experimentally valid model of schizophrenia. Current experimental evidence has implicated the nucleus accumbens in...
Psychopharmacology
January 11, 2005
Michael A. Benneyworth, Randy L Smith, Robert J. Barrett et al.
38 citations
RationaleThe drug discrimination procedure is the most frequently used in vivo model of hallucinogen activity. Historically, most drug discrimination studies have been conducted in the rat. With the development of genetically modified mice, a powerful new tool has become available for investigating the mechanisms of drug-induced behavior. The current paper is part of an ongoing effort to...
Philosophy East and West
2005
Charles Muller
Reviewed by: Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun Charles Muller Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun. By Dan Lusthaus. Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism Series. London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xii + 611. Hardcover $65.00. Western students of Yogācāra Buddhism have...
Vojnosanitetski Pregled
2005
Zivorad Malicevic, Milica Ninković, Ivana Vasiljević et al.
Navedeni podaci ukazuju da ?ekstazi? nije, kako se to posebno medju omladinom smatra, laka, bezopasna i zabavna droga. Obilje nezeljenih psihickih, neuroloskih, hepatickih, bubreznih, kardiovaskularnih i drugih toksicnih efekata pokazuje samo da oni nisu dobro procenjeni, a najopasnije je sto se desavaju pri upotrebi uobicajenih prosecnih doza ove droge. Uzivaoci u vecini slucajeva prelaze...
Progress in Brain Research
2005
Hans C Lou, Markus Nowak, Troels W Kjaer
In meditation both the quality and the contents of consciousness may be voluntarily changed, making it an obvious target in the quest for the neural correlate of consciousness. Here we present the results of a positron emission tomography study of yoga nidra relaxation meditation when compared with the normal resting conscious state. Meditation is accompanied by a relatively increased perfusion...
Schizophrenia Research
January 1, 2005
Georg Northoff, Andre Richter, Felix Bermpohl et al.
Based on animal data, NMDA receptor hypofunction has been suggested as a model for positive symptoms in schizophrenia. NMDA receptor hypofunction affects several corticolimbic brain regions, of which the posterior cingulate seems to be the most sensitive. However, empirical support for a crucial role of posterior cingulate NMDA hypofunction in the pathophysiology of positive symptoms is still...