Frontiers in Neurology
May 19, 2017
Ya Wang, Yong-Xin Li, Huirong Wang et al.
Infantile spasms (IS) syndrome is an age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy, which occurs in children characterized by spasms, impaired consciousness, and hypsarrhythmia. Abnormalities in default mode network (DMN) might contribute to the loss of consciousness during seizures and cognitive deficits in children with IS. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the changes in DMN with...
PLoS One
May 18, 2017
Elizabeth Milne, Abigail Dickinson, Richard Smith
Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is characterised by differences in social interaction and behavioural inflexibility. In addition to these core symptoms, atypical sensory responses are prevalent in the ASC phenotype. Here we investigated anomalous perception, i.e. hallucinatory and/or out of body experiences in adults with ASC. Thirty participants with an ASC diagnosis and thirty neurotypical...
May 14, 2017
P. Sabucedo
ABSTRACT While the growth of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and its underlying construct, psychological flexibility, has been supported by numerous studies, it has received little attention from sociocultural disciplines. With the aim of considering the transdiagnostic Psychological Flexibility Model from a cultural perspective and from an interdisciplinary approach combining both Psychology...
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
May 4, 2017
R. Costa, J. Pestaña, D. Costa
ABSTRACT Self-forgetfulness is a facet of self-transcendence characterized by tendency to experience altered states of consciousness. We examined associations of self-forgetfulness with sexual desire and frequency. Two hundred sixty-one Portuguese men and women completed the self-forgetfulness subscale of the Temperament and Character Inventory–Revised, a measure of openness to experience, and...
Medecine sciences : M/S
May 2017
Emilie A Caspar
The experiments conducted by the psychologist Stanley Milgram have shown the extent to which people behaviours can be modified under coercion. Nonetheless, the mechanisms that could explain how coercion influences moral behaviours have been largely unexplored. In the present article, I propose a new perspective to try to understand these mechanisms: this involves the neuroscience of...
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
May 2017
J E Rhodes, L J Healey
The study aimed to investigate the experience of adults with a diagnosis of psychosis and who have survived childhood physical abuse. We interviewed eight participants and used interpretative phenomenological analysis to generate themes. The main themes were of perceiving an everyday world of aggression and contempt by others, pervasive mistrust, feeling isolated and for some, attacking oneself...
European Journal of Integrative Medicine
April 28, 2017
Kristoffer Jonsson, Anette Kjellgren
15 citations
Among the anxiety disorders Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is currently the most treatment resistant, suggesting that treatment protocols could be enhanced. A promising treatment of GAD is flotation-REST (Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique), which in earlier studies has been shown to alleviate symptoms in GAD. Although, research on flotation-REST as a treatment of GAD has shown...
Cogent Psychology
April 24, 2017
Pierre Flor-Henry, Yakov Shapiro, Corine Sombrun
100 citations
Abstract There have been a number of electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies in “altered” states of consciousness including dissociative conditions, hypnosis, and meditation; however, the nature and clinical significance of trance states remain elusive. Alterations of consciousness that accompany trance can shed light on the brain networks contributing to the experience of...
April 20, 2017
B. Kastrup
I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism. This ontology also attempts to offer more explanatory power than both physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism, in that it does not fall prey to either the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ or the ‘subject combination...
Scientific Reports
April 19, 2017
Michael Schartner, Robin Carhart-Harris, Adam B. Barrett et al.
450 citations
Abstract What is the level of consciousness of the psychedelic state? Empirically, measures of neural signal diversity such as entropy and Lempel-Ziv (LZ) complexity score higher for wakeful rest than for states with lower conscious level like propofol-induced anesthesia. Here we compute these measures for spontaneous magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals from humans during altered states of...