Health and History
2009
Mathew T Martin-Iverson
Health& History 1112 2009 159 has to sort through a lot of other stuff to get it.He has some trouble keeping onmessage, often diverting tonon-related areas of psychiatric history. Then, we have to deal with his well-known opinions of the dreaded drug companies who are undoubtedly a part of the history, but could have been dealt with more objectively. I rather enjoyed his interludes into the...
European Neurology
2009
B C Ter Meulen, D Tavy, B C Jacobs
When early neurophysiologists, like William Grey Walter (1910-1977), started using intermittent photic driving in electroencephalography, they were struck by a wide range of visual hallucinations that were reported. In current neuroscience, the phenomenon is used mainly to model hallucinations that are related to altered neuronal activity between the thalamus and the visual cortex, such as the...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Moshe Halevi Spero
A report is offered of the psychoanalysis of an emotionally constricted, religiously devout ko'hen, a member of the Jewish priestly class, undertaken with the author, himself a religiously committed Jew. While the analysand brought a great deal of material to his hours and was deeply committed to the analysis, the sessions were emotionally vapid, obsessively repetitious and ruminative. For more...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2009
Daniel Erlacher
9 citations
The study of lucid dreams is a very sophisticated method to explore the ongoing dream from a first person perspective. The present study explores the ability of lucid dreamers to recall previously learned words in their dreams. For this field study 12 lucid dreamers finished the experimental protocol in a home setting. The results indicate that lucid dreamers are able to recall about 5 out of 7...
CRC Press eBooks
December 22, 2008
Mark R. Pressman
1 citation
Parasomnias are abnormal behavioral or physiological events that intrude into the sleep process, disrupting its continuity. Parasomnias are classified according to the type of sleep in which they occur, namely non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep parasomnias (1). The first includes disorders of arousals, namely confusional arousals (and their recently identified...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
December 1, 2008
Maria Gabriella Vita, Anna Paola Batocchi, Serena Dittoni et al.
An 11 year-old-boy acutely developed complex visual and acoustic hallucinations. Hallucinations, consisting of visions of a threatening, evil character of the Harry Potter saga, persisted for 3 days. Neurological and psychiatric examinations were normal. Ictal EEG was negative. MRI documented 3 small areas of hyperintense signal in the brainstem, along the paramedian and lateral portions of...
Current opinion in pediatrics
December 2008
Suresh Kotagal
To enhance the ability of the practitioner to diagnose and manage children with parasomnias in the office setting. Over 80% of preschool-age children experience parasomnia events. Instability in the regulation of sleep continuity might underlie sleep walking, sleep terrors, and confusional arousals. Catathernia or nocturnal groaning is a parasomnia that is recognized in adults but frequently...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 1, 2008
George A. Mashour, Eric LaRock
Philosophical (p-) zombies are constructs that possess all of the behavioral features and responses of a sentient human being, yet are not conscious. P-zombies are intimately linked to the hard problem of consciousness and have been invoked as arguments against physicalist approaches. But what if we were to invert the characteristics of p-zombies? Such an inverse (i-) zombie would possess all...
Medical Hypotheses
December 1, 2008
Bruce G Charlton
12 citations
The most frequently discussed role for genetic engineering is in relation to medicine, and a second area which provokes discussion is the use of genetic engineering as an enhancement technology. But one neglected area is the potential use of genetic engineering to increase human spiritual and religious experience - or genospirituality. If technologies are devised which can conveniently and...
Brain Research Bulletin
October 22, 2008
Carlo Cipolli, Claudia Bellucci, Katia Mattarozzi et al.
Narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) is a neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and an altered architecture of sleep. Previous laboratory studies have shown that frightening, bizarre and visually vivid contents are more frequent in dream experiences developed during the first period of REM sleep by NC patients than healthy subjects. As the structural organization of...