Transcultural Psychiatry
March 1, 2005
Joop De Jong
Sleep paralysis is one of the lesser-known and more benign forms of parasomnias. The primary or idiopathic form, also called isolated sleep paralysis, is illustrated by showing how patients from different cultures weave the phenomenology of sleep paralysis into their clinical narratives. Clinical case examples are presented of patients from Guinea Bissau, the Netherlands, Morocco, and Surinam...
Transcultural Psychiatry
March 1, 2005
David J. Hufford
This article presents an overview of the sleep paralysis experience from both a cultural and a historical perspective. The robust, complex phenomenological pattern that represents the subjective experience of sleep paralysis is documented and illustrated. Examples are given showing that, for a majority of subjects, sleep paralysis is taken to be a kind of spiritual experience. This is, in part,...
Behavioural Pharmacology
March 1, 2005
V. Buben Kov, Martin Votava, J. Hora Ek et al.
38 citations
Sensorimotor gating is the ability of a weak sensory event to inhibit the motor response to an intense stimulus. Drugs that act as serotonin releasers, such as MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), impair sensorimotor gating, which is measured as a prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response. The first objective of the present study was to compare the effect of different...
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...