Agronomy
December 15, 2022
Sarana Rose Sommano, Ratchuporn Suksathan, Thanarat Sombat et al.
16 citations
Fruiting bodies, mycelia, or spores in the form of extracts or powder of various medicinal mushrooms are used to prevent, treat, or cure a range of ailments and balance a healthy diet. Medicinal mushrooms are found in several genera of fungi and their fruit bodies, cultured mycelia, and cultured broth contains phytochemical constituents such as triterpenes, lectins, steroids, phenols,...
Frontiers in Psychology
December 14, 2022
Jiaxi Wang, Bin Song, Xiaoling Feng et al.
Introduction: Dreaming is the subjective experience during sleep. A spontaneous thought is a thought that comes to one's mind involuntarily. This study investigated whether presleep focusing on a positive spontaneous thought enhanced the possibility of dreaming of the thought. Methods: Ninety-seven participants were quasi-randomly assigned to an expression condition (focus on an spontaneous...
Perspectiva Filosófica
December 12, 2022
G. Piredda
In this contribution I will offer a rough guide through “situated affectivity”, a small galaxy of theories, ideas, intuitions which are recently growing at the boundaries between philosophy of emotion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science. In the last years, we are witnessing a real “affective turn” in the domain of analytic philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and situated...
December 12, 2022
Ceylan Yangin Ersanli, Tuğba Ünal
1 citation
preprint
There has been a rise of interest in mindfulness and its effects on the educational context during the last several decades.The research study aims to investigate the effects of mindfulness training on EFL students' level of speaking anxiety, willingness to speak in the target language, and their levels of mindfulness awareness.The perceptions of participants were also investigated in this...
Research Features
December 8, 2022
ransferring human consciousness into a machine -or to put it another way, mind uploading -has long been a popular motif in science fiction, but for now, seems like a far-off dream.However, a professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo believes we're on the cusp of making mind uploading a reality, moreover, in a seamless operation using a brainmachine interface while the...
Scientific Reports
December 8, 2022
Paweł Krukow, Kamil Jonak
When performing cognitively demanding tasks, people tend to experience momentary distractions or personal associations that intercept their stream of consciousness. This phenomenon is known as Mind Wandering (MW) and it has become a subject of neuroscientific investigations. Off-task thoughts can be analyzed during task performance, but currently, MW is also understood as a dimension of...
Social History of Medicine
December 8, 2022
Stephen Lett, Erika Dyck
5 citations
Psychedelic-assisted therapy has attracted considerable clinical attention in the past decade for its ability to bring therapeutic benefits to patients in treatment-resistant categories. In contradistinction from other psychopharmaco-therapies, contemporary psychedelic therapists, like their predecessors, paid close attention to the 'set and setting', and argued that the mind-set of the subject...
Neurosurgery
December 8, 2022
Akanksha Sharma, Shanthi Gowrinathan, Karina Sergi et al.
13 citations
After a decades-long pause, psychedelics are again being intensely investigated for treating a wide range of neuropsychiatric ailments including depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, anorexia, and chronic pain syndromes. The classic serotonergic psychedelics psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide and nonclassic psychedelics 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and...
Clinical Research and Clinical Reports
December 7, 2022
2 citations
This article highlights the ontological nature of the absolute vacuum in Mocombe’s phenomenological structuralism and consciousness field theories. Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts, relations, and things of the multiverse, which it attempts to reify and universalize through concepts of language, mathematics, and social structure. The facts,...
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
December 6, 2022
Ugo Dessì
Abstract This article explores the Scuola di Meditazione (School of Meditation) established in Sardinia in 1983, one of the earliest instances in Italy of the use of ‘Eastern’ techniques by Roman Catholic religious professionals to promote the practice of meditation for lay people. Against the backdrop of ongoing religious diversification in the Italian context, this case study provides an...