Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
March 18, 2019
Kurt Stocker, G. Hasler, Matthias Hartmann
5 “I kind of enjoyed the next few hours till dinner. I was still kind of floating on air” (5: 06) (T29). 6 “I had this awkward weight that I carried around me wherever I went (0: 47) ... Literally I had the sensation of this steal armor that I wore my entire life [that] – chunks of it – were falling off (3: 03)” (T16). 7 “I did immediately following the first session – and in the second and in...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
March 9, 2019
Andria Pelentritou, Levin Kuhlmann, John Cormack et al.
1 citation
preprint
B. Abstract Background. Despite their intriguing nature, investigations of the neurophysiology of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-antagonists Xenon (Xe) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) are limited and have revealed inconsistent frequency-dependent alterations, in spectral power and functional connectivity. Discrepancies are likely due to using low resolution electroencephalography restricted to sensor...
Journal of Visualized Experiments
March 8, 2019
Mai Minoura, Iori Tani, Takahiro Ishii et al.
How is our bodily self-consciousness acquired, and how does it affect cognition? To investigate this, we conducted an experiment using the squeeze machine, a device that provides pressure along the length of the user's whole body. The squeeze machine is used to help autistic people relax. The inventor of the machine, Dr. Temple Grandin says that the squeeze machine, beyond bringing her...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2019
P. Craffert
28 citations
Abstract The growing body of research on near‐death experiences ( NDE s) is an indication of the large number of people claiming such experiences. A surprising feature of the research is that conceptually there is no agreement on what an NDE is and consequently a large number of definitions characterize this field of research. In order to address the definitional quagmire, a first step consists...
PsyCh Journal
March 1, 2019
Sylvie Droit-Volet, Michael Dambrun
72 citations
What do humans mean when they say that time passes quickly or slowly? In this article, we try to respond to this question on the basis of our studies on the judgment of the passage of time and its links with the judgment of physical durations. The awareness of the passage of time when consciousness is altered by meditation is also discussed. A dissociation is then made among the "self-time...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2019
Charlotte Martial, Héléna Cassol, Vanessa Charland-Verville et al.
98 citations
The real or perceived proximity to death often results in a non-ordinary state of consciousness characterized by phenomenological features such as the perception of leaving the body boundaries, feelings of peace, bliss and timelessness, life review, the sensation of traveling through a tunnel and an irreversible threshold. Near-death experiences (NDEs) are comparable among individuals of...
Medical Hypotheses
February 11, 2019
K.p.c. Kuypers
34 citations
Psychedelic substances have regained interest as therapeutic agents in the treatment of stress-related disorders. The effects seem to be of persisting nature even after a single dose. Also in lower than 'regular' recreational doses, so-called micro-doses, without the typical effects on consciousness, users report beneficial effects on cognitive processes and well-being. The exact...
Neuropsychopharmacology
February 6, 2019
Stjepan Curic, Gregor Leicht, Stephanie Thiebes et al.
Abnormal gamma-band oscillations (GBO) have been frequently associated with the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. GBO are modulated by glutamate, a neurotransmitter, which is continuously discussed to shape the complex symptom spectrum in schizophrenia. The current study examined the effects of ketamine, a glutamate N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist, on the auditory-evoked...
Studia Humana
February 1, 2019
M. Rappaport, C. Corbally
Abstract The authors present an evolutionary model for the biological emergence of religious capacity as an advanced neurocognitive trait. Using their model for the stages leading to the evolutionary emergence of religious capacity in Homo sapiens, they analyze the mechanisms that can fail, leading to unbelief (atheism or agnosticism). The analysis identifies some, but not all types of atheists...
Entropy
January 30, 2019
Aline Viol, Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, Heloisa Onias et al.
37 citations
With the aim of further advancing the understanding of the human brain’s functional connectivity, we propose a network metric which we term the geodesic entropy. This metric quantifies the Shannon entropy of the distance distribution to a specific node from all other nodes. It allows to characterize the influence exerted on a specific node considering statistics of the overall network...