The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual
November 8, 2018
E. Klocová, A. Geertz
10 citations
This chapter focuses on the growing empirical knowledge about the interaction between bodily actions, human thinking, and the cultural embeddedness of human cognition. An approach to ritual based on this expanded view of cognition produces important perspectives and insights for the study of religions. Embodied cognition is a very diverse field and the chapter therefore draws on what is called...
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine
November 7, 2018
A. Goyal, J. Bakshi, Sushma Rani et al.
Abstract The present study is the case of a breast cancer patient who visited the local unit of the Brahma Kumaris (BK). Conversations with the patient revealed that the patient was being treated in the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. The treatment of the patient included the surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. The patient narrated her ability...
arXiv Preprint Archive
November 6, 2018
Jerome A Feldman
preprint
The ancient mind/body problem continues to be one of deepest mysteries of science and of the human spirit. Despite major advances in many fields, there is still no plausible link between subjective experience (qualia) and its realization in the body. This paper outlines some of the elements of a rigorous science of mind (SoM) - key ideas include scientific realism of mind, agnostic...
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
November 5, 2018
Nagarjuna Reddy Aturi
: The perfect balance of mind, body and soul is considered as complete health in Ayurveda. Ayurveda proclaims food and drugs are intersecting concepts that are vital for human survival and for the prevention and mitigation of diseases. Ayurveda is regarded as “ The Science of Life ” and the practice involve the care of physical, mental and spiritual health of human being. Life according to...
Time, Consciousness and Writing
November 2, 2018
P. Malekin
This book contains a series of responses to the work of Peter Malekin as both scholar and teacher. These responses come from former students, from colleagues and from scholars who knew him only from his publications. The wide range of writing collected here reflects the wide range of Malekin’s interests, yet there was a coherent intellectual vision underlying all his work. We might state the...
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
November 2018
Luiz Augusto Rosa
According to the High-order Theory of Emotional Consciousness (HOTEC), every emotional process is a conscious and high-order state of mind carried out by the General Networks of Cognition (GNC), which consists mainly of prefrontal mechanisms. This means that anxiety is also an emotional state of mind carried out by the GNC (positive correlation). However, numerous studies have suggested what is...
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
November 2018
Romina Rinaldi, Laurent Lefebvre, Wivine Blekic et al.
Impairment in Theory of mind (TOM) has frequently been associated with schizophrenia and with schizotypy. Studies have found that a tendency to over-attribute intentions and special meaning to events and to people is related to positive psychotic symptoms. Further, it has been suggested that this intentionality bias may be due to a broader deficit in context processing (CP). The aim of the...
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
November 2018
Fanny Dégeilh, Annie Bernier, Élizabel Leblanc et al.
Infants' experiences are considered to determine to a large degree the strength and effectiveness of neural connections and fine tune the development of brain networks. As one of the most pervasive and potent relational experiences of infancy, parent-child relationships appear to be prime candidates to account for experience-driven differences in children's brain development. Yet, studies...
Explore
November 2018
Celine-Marie Pascale, Catherine M Schaeff
This pilot case study sought to examine the efficacy of subtle energy treatments as conducted by Buddhist healing master Segyu Rinpoche at his Juniper Integrative Clinic in Northern California. Over the course of a year, this study followed two patients with terminal diagnoses, their treating physicians, and Segyu Rinpoche as the patients underwent treatment at the Juniper Clinic. The patients...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
November 2018
Anil K. Seth, Manos Tsakiris
Modern psychology has long focused on the body as the basis of the self. Recently, predictive processing accounts of interoception (perception of the body 'from within') have become influential in accounting for experiences of body ownership and emotion. Here, we describe embodied selfhood in terms of 'instrumental interoceptive inference' that emphasises allostatic regulation and physiological...