Philosophy International Journal
July 1, 2024
Tripathi Rl*
The concept of the mind in philosophy encompasses a diverse range of theories and perspectives, examining its immaterial nature, unitary function, self-activity, self-consciousness, and persistence despite bodily changes. This paper explores the attributes of the mind, addressing classical materialism, dualism, and behaviorism, along with contemporary theories like functionalism and...
Journal of Applied Consciousness Studies
July 1, 2024
Rahul Banerjee, Dipsundar Sahu
Currently, vitalism stands as a discredited theory in the Western empirical sciences. However, the Indian analytical traditions, specifically the Jaina, Bauddha, Sankhya-Yoga, and the Vedanta, unanimously propose a vital energy “prana” or “jivitindriya” to bridge the explanatory gap between internal conscious states and physical states in the body. The philosophical development of vitalism both...
International Journal of Drug Policy
July 1, 2024
Masoomeh Maarefvand, Maziyar Ghiabi
In this essay we want to foreground a question: what happens to 'addiction' when we take seriously cultural scripts informing its trajectories? Can this bring us to unthink addiction as problematic notion and move it onto new paradigms that fit better the now acknowledged fluidity and pluralistic episteme of 'addiction' and more broadly of chronic life conditions? Indeed, 'addiction' has become...
Journal of Religious Education
July 1, 2024
Juliëtte van Deursen-Vreeburg
Abstract The personal formation of students is an important goal in Religious Education in secondary schools in the Netherlands. This article, which is based on the design research of my PhD dissertation, examines how a contemplative approach to reading stories can, according to Religious Education teachers, contribute to the personal formation of students. Thus, a teacher’s manual, based on...
Schizophrenia Research
July 1, 2024
Vittorio Gallese, Martina Ardizzi, Francesca Ferroni
18 citations
Despite the historically consolidated psychopathological perspective, on the one hand, contemporary organicistic psychiatry often highlights abnormalities in neurotransmitter systems like dysregulation of dopamine transmission, neural circuitry, and genetic factors as key contributors to schizophrenia. Neuroscience, on the other, has so far almost entirely neglected the first-person...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
July 1, 2024
Paul Grof
As humanity has been utilizing psychedelic substances for millennia, much knowledge has already been accumulated about the exploratory potential and therapeutic power of the psychedelic-induced nonordinary states of consciousness (NSC). However, we still have only a limited understanding of the process that unfolds in mind and the brain. Only recently have systematic investigations become...
Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences
July 1, 2024
Jayalakshmi Lakshmanan, Bhuvaneswari Gopalakrishnan, Shankar Shanmugam Rajendran
1 citation
The global demographic shift toward an older population is witnessing an increase in age-related psychological disorders and chronic illnesses, particularly among those residing in old age homes. Mind-body interventions (MBIs) have shown promise in enhancing mental and physical health without the adverse effects associated with pharmaceuticals. This quasi-experimental study involved 42 elderly...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
July 1, 2024
Tamas Madl
2 citations
The benefits of meditation are increasingly recognized, and some forms are now used for clinical intervention. However, the electrophysiological correlates of meditative states are not yet well understood, and the limited predictive accuracy of known markers of meditation suggest that not all information relevant to meditation has been captured by previous work.Here, we convert...
Humanities and Meditation Research Institute
June 30, 2024
Jin-keon Moon
This study explored basic steps of active imagination and looked at related topics such as free association, imagination, signs and symbols in order to reveal the characteristics of Jung’s active imagination. According to the results of the exploration, active imagination is not a reductive way to understand the mental images that emerge from the unconscious. In active imagination a patient...
Letters in Applied NanoBioScience
June 30, 2024
Rishabh Khare, K. Rajagopal, Srikanth Jupudi et al.
Depression is a critical mental ailment as it impacts about 5% of the global population, prompting scientists to create more efficacious antidepressants. The monoamine-deficiency hypothesis suggests that depression is caused by the depletion of certain neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine in the brain, where serotonin plays the most critical role among all and has been...