Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
July 10, 2019
Anira Escrichs, Ana Sanjuán, Selen Atasoy et al.
Over the past 2,500 years, contemplative traditions have explored the nature of the mind using meditation. More recently, neuroimaging research on meditation has revealed differences in brain function and structure in meditators. Nevertheless, the underlying neural mechanisms are still unclear. In order to understand how meditation shapes global activity through the brain, we investigated the...
Bulletin of emergency and trauma
July 2019
Gülçin Aydin, Bülent Bakar
Bonsai is a synthetic cannabinoid (SC) substance which can cause lung toxicity with chronic use. However, there are few case reports in literature related to bonsai-induced intracerebral hemorrhage in literature. A 25-year-old man presented at the Emergency Room (ER) with dyspnea, hemoptysis and agitation subsequent to bonsai use. He became unconscious in ER and was then intubated and admitted...
Jurnal Psikologi Udayana
April 27, 2019
Karla Amanda Permata, P. N. Widiasavitri
Sleep paralysis adalah gangguan tidur dimana individu memiliki kesadaran saat tidur tetapi tidak mampu bergerak dan berbicara dalam beberapa detik atau menit bahkan sulit bernapas serta merasakan sesak di dada. Sleep paralysis dapat dialami paling tidak satu kali dalam hidup manusia. Usia rata-rata individu pertama kali mengalami ganguan tidur ini adalah 14-18 tahun. Salah satu penyebab...
Annals of Neurosciences
April 2019
Shilpa Bisht, Bhavna V. Chawla, Madhuri R Tolahunase et al.
Childhood cancers are associated with a psychological burden to the parents and hence, decline their mental and physical health and overall quality of life. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of 12-weeks yoga based lifestyle intervention on psychological stress and quality of life in the parents of children affected with retinoblastoma. Single arm prospective clinical...
March 14, 2019
Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen
Yoga, meditation, and asceticism have been intimately linked throughout Indian religious history since the early beginnings in the ascetic reformism of India’s “axial age.” Traditional yoga addresses the main concerns of the ascetic reformism and is a practical method to solve the problem of suffering and attain liberation from this world. It primarily refers to the practice of meditation as...
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
March 1, 2019
Maggie Compernolle
Topic Significance & Study Purpose/Background/Rationale Patients with hematological malignancies, particularly those with acute diagnoses requiring immediate treatment and hospitalization, often experience high levels of distress. Mindfulness has been shown to alleviate symptoms of distress in cancer patients, but there is limited research on the effects of mindfulness on distress in this...
International Journal of Yoga
2019
Gopinath Sathyanarayanan, Ashvini Vengadavaradan, Balaji Bharadwaj
Yoga has its origin from the ancient times. It is an integration of mind, body, and soul. Besides, mindfulness emphasizes focused awareness and accepting the internal experiences without being judgemental. These techniques offer a trending new dimension of treatment in various psychiatric disorders. We aimed to review the studies on the efficacy of yoga and mindfulness as a treatment modality...
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities
2019
Philipp Tagirov
The article studies the complex and rather equivocal discourse set around the altered states of consciousness and so-called “emerging scientific paradigm” which claims to return to human existence a certain supreme transcendental meaning that could help rebuilding a universal symbolic space, and thus return a man himself to the sacred reality. The psychedelic trend unites concepts and...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2019
Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge, Michael A. Jensen
17 citations
Bioelectric oscillations occur throughout the nervous system of nearly all animals, revealed to play an important role in various aspects of cognitive activity such as information processing and feature binding. Modern research into this dynamic and intrinsic bioelectric activity of neural cells continues to raise questions regarding their role in consciousness and cognition. In this...
Journal of Cardiology & Current Research
December 6, 2018
Charunayan Kamath
Found in cultures, spiritual traditions, and healing practices throughout the world, meditation is a mind-body practice with different approaches and variations, which began probably more than five thousand years ago. Since then it has developed and practiced to understand consciousness and improve health conditions. All these meditation techniques can be broadly classified under two...