Clinical Toxicology
April 1, 2011
Jan Krul, Armand R J Girbes
OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to determine the health disturbances and to assess the severity of the incidents as reported during a 9-year experience of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)-related First Aid Attendees attending First Aid Stations at rave parties. DESIGN. This study was a prospective observational study of self-referred patients from the year 2000 to 2008. During rave...
Behavioural Neurology
March 29, 2011
Fabrice Bartolomei, Lionel Naccache
The global workspace (GW) theory proposes that conscious processing results from coherent neuronal activity between widely distributed brain regions, with fronto-parietal associative cortices as key elements. In this model, transition between conscious and non conscious states are predicted to be caused by abrupt non-linear massive changes of the level of coherence within this distributed...
NeuroQuantology
March 11, 2011
Jalmir Freire Brelaz de Castro
This paper proposes to evaluate the relationship of scientific criteria to parapsychology. It is herein argued that the most effective ways for the discipline of parapsychology to progress, are: a) to face psi, firstly, as a conceptual problem; b) to combine several approaches containing psi in their essence; and c) to try to build a psi “hard core” through a theoretical approach to resolving...
NeuroQuantology
March 5, 2011
Michael Winkelman
14 citations
Although the term “shamanic†is used to refer to a diverse range of phenomena, it nonetheless reflects something empirical. Cross-cultural research illustrates that the concept of the shaman reflects the existence of similar spiritual healing practices found in pre-modern foraging and simple horticultural and pastoral societies around the world (Winkelman, 1992; 2000). This cross-cultural...
NeuroQuantology
March 4, 2011
Alan S. Haas
9 citations
A novel approach is introduced to explain the appearance of telepathy‐like effects as the consequence of disturbances in the normal equilibration or ‘equilibrated non‐equilibrium’ of ordinary human experience. A new electromagnetic version of Freud’s psychoanalytic model is proposed, which begins by treating the mind as a charged object that interacts with others and the environment in a...
NeuroQuantology
March 4, 2011
Massimo Cocchi, Lucio Tonello, Fabio Gabrielli et al.
12 citations
This paper focuses on aspects of quantitative and quantum approaches to the phenomenon of hallucination. Consideration is given to the molecular hypothesis of consciousness, to consciousness as perception of the self, and to hallucinatory perception as consciousness detached from reality. The possible transitional sequence viscosity of membrane / Gs protein / tubulin in altered states of...
Bulletin of the history of medicine
March 1, 2011
Toby Gelfand
Reviewed by: Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux Toby Gelfand Jan Goldstein . Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. xi + 246 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-691-01186-8). Nanette Leroux, an eighteen-year-old French peasant girl, fell gravely ill in the summer of 1822 with a bewildering array of nervous...
Social Science Information
March 1, 2011
Michael Witzel
8 citations
This article seeks to establish that the ‘southern’ shamanism of the San, Andamanese and Australian Aboriginals differs substantially from the well-known ‘classical’ Siberian version found in various forms in large parts of Eurasia and the Americas (‘Laurasia’). The typical southern (‘Gondwana’) shamanistic features of heat rising up the spine are linked to medieval Indian Kundalini yoga and...
Current Neuropharmacology
March 1, 2011
Zbigniew Binienda, Michael A Beaudoin, Brett T Thorn et al.
10 citations
Advances in computer technology have allowed quantification of the electroencephalogram (EEG) and expansion of quantitative EEG (qEEG) analysis in neurophysiology, as well as clinical neurology, with great success. Among the variety of techniques in this field, frequency (spectral) analysis using Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) provides a sensitive tool for time-course studies of different...
Oxford University Press eBooks
February 2, 2011
Nevill Drury
1 citation
Abstract If we are to understand the nature of contemporary magical practice and its relationship with the "virtual" world of the Internet, it may well be that new paradigms are required—new paradigms for research into altered states of consciousness and new paradigms for the study of magic, as well. This chapter explores magic in the digital age, commencing with Terence McKenna's "cyberdelic"...