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Living Zen Remindfully October 21, 2016 James H. Austin
This chapter examines the circumstances surrounding episodes in Basho’s later life when he appeared to have experienced an alternate state of consciousness. Gazing upward and listening upward spontaneously have the potential to trigger such states.
Psychopharmacology October 7, 2016 Matthias E. Liechti, Patrick C. Dolder, Yasmin Schmid 203 citations
Mystical-type experiences were infrequent after LSD, possibly because of the set and setting used in the present study. LSD may produce greater or different alterations of consciousness at 200 μg (i.e., a dose that is currently used in psychotherapy in Switzerland) compared with 100 μg (i.e., a dose used in imaging studies). Ego dissolution may reflect plasma levels of LSD, whereas more...
Attachment & human development October 2016 Naomi I Gribneau Bahm, Robbie Duschinsky, Erik Hesse
Liotti proposed that interactions during infancy with a parent suffering unresolved loss could lead to vulnerabilities to altered states of consciousness. Hesse and van IJzendoorn provided initial support for Liotti's hypothesis, finding elevated scores on Tellegen's Absorption Scale - a normative form of dissociation - for undergraduates reporting that their parents had experienced the loss of...
Activitas Nervosa Superior September 1, 2016 Noémi Császár, Felix Scholkmann, Gábor Kapócs et al. 5 citations
Abstract The question of how to define and explain hypnosis is still not completely answered. Most of the theories of hypnosis are based on describing it as an altered state of consciousness; others focus on intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects, sociopsychological, neurocognitive or sociocognitive processes. More detailed explanation of hypnosis requires a synthesis of these various...
Neuropsychologia September 2016 Margaret C Mckinnon, Jenna E Boyd, Paul Frewen et al.
Dissociative experiences, involving altered states of consciousness, have long been understood as a consequence or response to traumatic experiences, where a reduced level of consciousness may aid in survival during and after a traumatic event. Indeed, the dissociative subtype of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD-DS) was added recently to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
Medical Hypotheses September 1, 2016 Stephen L. Thaler
Random connection weight disturbances within an assembly of artificial neural networks (ANN) drive a progression of activation patterns that are tantamount to the memories and ideas nucleating within the brain's cortex. The numerical evaluation of these pattern-based notions by another, more placid system of ANNs governs the magnitude of weight disturbances administered to the former assembly,...
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research September 1, 2016 Sisira Padavala, Devaraj Ezhilarasan 10 citations
ABSTRACTCompounds in some plants have remarkable effects on the central nervous system. Plants containing those compounds are mind altering orpsychoactive in nature. These are consumed in the form of simple or complex preparations to affect the mind or alter the state of consciousness.Psychoactivity may include sedative, stimulant, euphoric, deliriant, and hallucinogenic effects. Several...
Anesthesiology August 9, 2016 Vincent Bonhomme, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Athena Demertzi et al. 206 citations
BACKGROUND: Consciousness-altering anesthetic agents disturb connectivity between brain regions composing the resting-state consciousness networks (RSNs). The default mode network (DMn), executive control network, salience network (SALn), auditory network, sensorimotor network (SMn), and visual network sustain mentation. Ketamine modifies consciousness differently from other agents, producing...
Salud Mental August 2, 2016 1 citation
Consciousness is the most familiar and most direct experience humans have, but it is also the major mystery pondered by psychiatrists, biologists and philosophers. There is no doubt that consciousness sits in the brain. To initiate the scientific approach to the subject, it has been necessary to overcome traditional philosophical obstacles and methodological problems. The main difficulty lies...
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology August 1, 2016 Albert Garcia‐romeu, Brennan Kersgaard, Peter H. Addy 198 citations
Hallucinogens fall into several different classes, as broadly defined by pharmacological mechanism of action, and chemical structure. These include psychedelics, entactogens, dissociatives, and other atypical hallucinogens. Although these classes do not share a common primary mechanism of action, they do exhibit important similarities in their ability to occasion temporary but profound...