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Journal of Loss and Trauma January 2, 2018 Elisabeth Lowenstein 2 citations
In this paper, the author, who is a single mother of a young man with mental illness, describes her son’s first psychotic break. By melding poetry, prose, dream journal entries, and medical case notes, she explores the embodied experience of witnessing her son’s decompensation. In sharing her story, she reminds other caregivers of people with mental illness that they are not alone. She makes...
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos 2018 Marsha Kinder
This essay uses neuroscience to reframe the work of filmmaker Luis Buñuel. It shows not only how certain concepts in neuroscience illuminate his narrative experimentation but also how his experimental narratives expand our understanding of human consciousness. Drawing on the translational writings of neuroscientists Michael Gazzaniga and Antonio Damasio, who emphasize the role of narrative in...
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2018 Peter Lush, G Moga, N McLatchie et al.
The ability to respond to hypnotic suggestibility (hypnotizability) is a stable trait which can be measured in a standardized procedure consisting of a hypnotic induction and a series of hypnotic suggestions. The SWASH is a 10-item adaptation of an established scale, the Waterloo-Stanford Group C Scale of Hypnotic Suggestibility (WSGC). Development of the SWASH was motivated by three distinct...
ZAS Papers in Linguistics 2018 Carina Kauf 2 citations
Counteridenticals are counterfactual conditional sentences whose antecedent clausescontain an identity statement, e.g. If I were you, I’d buy the blue dress. Here, we argue thatcounteridenticals are best analyzed along the lines of dream reports. After showing that counteridenticalsand dream reports exhibit striking grammatical and perceptual parallels, we suggestan analysis of...
The Journal of the Civil War Era 2018 Dillon J. Carroll
Reviewed by: Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War by Jonathan W. White Dillon Carroll (bio) Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War. By Jonathan W. White. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 296 Cloth, $34.95.) "Nighttime during the Civil War might reasonably be considered the most sleepless period in...
Medical Research Archives 2018 Wenlu Zhang 2 citations
Dreams, generated by the sleeping brain, are one of the most common and fascinating phenomena of human mind. But the role and mechanism of dreaming remain largely unknown. This paper provided the phenomenon showing that the brain is trying, but always failing, to correctly process information in the sleeping state. We proposed that dreams are the product of the brain retaining partial activity...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2018 Øystein Buer, Mary Harris Kalfoss, Lars Weisæth et al.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to explore the states of consciousness associated with various features of near-death experience (NDE). The sample comprised 23 Norwegian adult survivors of unconsciousness associated with life threatening medical conditions, either cardiac arrest (CA; n=19) or surgery to address another type of trauma (OT; n=4). Of these, 11 CA and 4 OT patients...
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Franco Fabbro, Anastasia Fabbro, Cristiano Crescentini
The present work introduces the neuropsychological paradigm as a new approach to studying ancient literature. In the first part of the article, an epistemological framework for the proper use of neuropsychology in relation to ancient literature is presented. The article then discusses neuropsychological methods of studying different human experiences and dimensions already addressed by ancient...
Industrial Psychiatry Journal 2018 Sandeep Grover, Aseem Mehra, Devakshi Dua
Succubus is also known as demon female lover who approaches males in their dreams to have sex. This is the phenomenon which is rarely described in psychiatric literature. It is more identified as a cultural belief in different religions. We report the two cases diagnosed with schizophrenia, who reported this rare phenomenon of succubus as part of their psychopathology and discuss the phenomenon...
2018 S. Palbag
Yoga means union of the soul of the individual with the supreme consciousness. It is a 5000-year-old Indian source of wisdom whose importance is accepted by the whole world. India has taken several important steps to amalgamate the tradition of yoga with everyday life through implementation in student's physical training program to inclusion in modern healthcare system. This minireview will...