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NeuroQuantology 2018 Greg P. Hodes
This note calls attention to the fact that efficient causes – the sort of cause that changes something or makes something happen – can play no constit-utive role in the immediate cognitively conscious relation between cognitive subject and a cognitive object. It argues that: (1) it is a necessary condition for there being an efficient causal relation that it alter its relata; and (2) it is a...
Psychology 2018 Vito Zepinic 4 citations
Traumatic memories are highly emotional, life-altering events that would appear to have the best chance of persisting into the entire life. In complex trauma syndrome, they are usually endless causing often dissociative phenomena—the alterations in one’s consciousness. Thus, traumatic memories may cause a constant feeling of intense fears, helplessness, loss of control, affliction of the...
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2018 Peter Lush, G Moga, N McLatchie et al.
The ability to respond to hypnotic suggestibility (hypnotizability) is a stable trait which can be measured in a standardized procedure consisting of a hypnotic induction and a series of hypnotic suggestions. The SWASH is a 10-item adaptation of an established scale, the Waterloo-Stanford Group C Scale of Hypnotic Suggestibility (WSGC). Development of the SWASH was motivated by three distinct...
Network Neuroscience 2018 James R Riehl, Ben J Palanca, Shinung Ching
Characterizing anesthesia-induced alterations to brain network dynamics provides a powerful framework to understand the neural mechanisms of unconsciousness. To this end, increased attention has been directed at how anesthetic drugs alter the functional connectivity between brain regions as defined through neuroimaging. However, the effects of anesthesia on temporal dynamics at functional...
PLoS One 2018 Albert H Van der Veer, Adrian J T Alsmith, Matthew R Longo et al.
It is currently not well understood whether people experience themselves to be located in one or more specific part(s) of their body. Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used as a tool to study aspects of bodily perception and self-consciousness, due to its strong experimental control and ease in manipulating multi-sensory aspects of bodily experience. To investigate where people self-locate...
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2018 Hernán Anlló, Jérôme Sackur
To test the specific effects of hypnosis on the attentional components of visual awareness, we developed a posthypnotic suggestion for peripheral visual inattention inspired on the "tunnel vision" symptom of the Balint Syndrome. We constructed a dual-target visibility and discrimination paradigm, in which single-digit numerical targets were placed both on the hypnotically affected peripheral...
PLoS One 2018 Alessandro Nesti, Giulio Rognini, Bruno Herbelin et al.
Current neuroscientific models of bodily self-consciousness (BSC) argue that inaccurate integration of sensory signals leads to altered states of BSC. Indeed, using virtual reality technology, observers viewing a fake or virtual body while being exposed to tactile stimulation of the real body, can experience illusory ownership over-and mislocalization towards-the virtual body (Full-Body...
eSciPub LLC - International Journal of Aging Research 2018 Pierre A. Guertin
It is well known that aging is the process of becoming older. It is also associated normally with a progressive loss of biological functions – both physical and mental –, underlied by naturally-occurring changes at the molecular level that may lead to the development of so-called aging-related health problems – e.g., Parkinson’s Disease, dementia, memory loss, cerebrovascular problems and...
Asian journal of neurosurgery 2018 Seckin Aydin, Odhan Yuksel, Aysegul Esen Aydin et al.
Synthetic cannabinoids (spice), which are used frequently worldwide, are more potent than herbal compounds and also have more side effects in comparison. A 23-year-old male was admitted to the emergency unit with altered consciousness. There was no sign of trauma, and his medical history did not reveal any chronic illness. Computed tomography revealed a large frontal hematoma extending to the...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences January 2018 Michael J Hove, Johannes Stelzer
Singh proposes a cultural evolutionary theory of shamanic practices, including trance. We argue that cultural factors are deeply intertwined with biological aspects in shaping shamanic practices, and the underlying biology is critical. We discuss the neural underpinnings of rhythm-induced trance, how they can facilitate insight, and how altered states can promote healing.