Frontiers in Psychology
2012
Lizette Heine, Andrea Soddu, Francisco Gómez et al.
281 citations
In order to better understand the functional contribution of resting state activity to conscious cognition, we aimed to review increases and decreases in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) functional connectivity under physiological (sleep), pharmacological (anesthesia), and pathological altered states of consciousness, such as brain death, coma, vegetative state/unresponsive...
Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
2012
Varsha Dutta
12 citations
Death is our most repressed consciousness, it inheres our condition as the primordial fear. Perhaps it was necessary that this angst be repressed in man or he would be hurled against the dark forces of nature. Modern ethos was built on this edifice, where the 'denial of death' while 'embracing one's symbolic immortality' would be worshipped, so this ideology simply overturned and repressed...
Sleep Medicine
December 2011
Roberto Vetrugno, Pasquale Montagna
Sleep is a coordinated process involving more or less simultaneous changes in sensory, motor, autonomic, hormonal, and cerebral processes. On the other hand, none of the changes occurring with sleep are invariably coupled to sleep. EEG synchrony, heat loss, sleep-related hormone secretion, and even REM-related motoneuron paralysis may occur independent of the parent state. In REM sleep...
Neuropsychological Trends
November 1, 2011
Maria Grazia Inzaghi, Matteo Sozzi
Aim of this work is to provide an overview on the main clinical issues concerning disorder of consciousness (DOC). After a briefly description of the debate on clinical differences in states of altered consciousness, we report the description of clinical features of the three different levels of DOC: coma, vegetative state, and minimally conscious state, according to the Multi Society Task...
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
October 21, 2011
Erica Neill, Susan Lee Rossell, Sarah McDonald et al.
11 citations
Semantic deficits constitute a core cognitive abnormality in schizophrenia. In the current study, the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist ketamine was administered to healthy individuals acutely while they performed semantic processing tasks that included word pairs of differing degrees of semantic relatedness. Two dimensions of semantic processing were investigated: (1) explicit versus...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
October 20, 2011
Celia A. Brownell, Margarita Svetlova, Sara R. Nichols
13 citations
The body is the means by which we interact and communicate with one another, and as such it both connects us to one another and conveys fundamental social information about us, including personal identity as well as general characteristics like age, gender, and social roles, and psychological characteristics such as intentions, feelings, and attitudes. Although our own bodies are in the...
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
September 28, 2011
Jay B. Frankel
10 citations
The analytic state of consciousness is a particular regressive altered state in the patient characterized by an increased sensitivity and reactivity to impressions arising from both the inner world and the analyst, a heightened sense of dependence and vulnerability, a permeability of boundaries in regard to the analyst, and a shift toward functioning on the basis of omnipotent fantasy in the...
Neuropsychopharmacology
September 28, 2011
Boris B. Quednow, Michael Kometer, Mark A. Geyer et al.
241 citations
The serotonin-2A receptor (5-HT(2A)R) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and related inhibitory gating and behavioral inhibition deficits of schizophrenia patients. The hallucinogen psilocybin disrupts automatic forms of sensorimotor gating and response inhibition in humans, but it is unclear so far whether the 5-HT(2A)R or 5-HT(1A)R agonist properties of its bioactive...
The Heythrop Journal
September 6, 2011
Simon D. Podmore
3 citations
In response to prevailing perceptions, I contend that Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) conceives of the wholly otherness of God via his dialectical category of the ‘infinite qualitative difference’ between the human and the divine, initially through the self's consciousness of sin and ultimately through the self's acceptance of the gift of forgiveness. Therefore, I claim that while the common...
NeuroQuantology
September 2, 2011
Michael Bova
2 citations
Michael Bova reviews events that took place in the early 1970s when his cousin Jimmy confidentially reported spontaneous experiences involving unusual sensory awareness and altered states of consciousness which developed into the apparent anomalies of extra sensory perception and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Bova describes Jimmy’s emotional duress of having spontaneous anomalies and includes...