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Oxford Scholarship Online July 19, 2018 J. Christopher Maloney
Representationalism rightly treats perception as a type of cognitive representation. However, it wrongly proposes that perceptual content determines phenomenal character. Rather, it is the form, not the content, of a perceptual representation that constitutes phenomenal character. For direct realism is true: Perception is that form of cognition in which representation and represented are the...
PLoS One July 18, 2018 Daiva Daukantaité, Una Tellhed, Rachel E. Maddux et al. 28 citations
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs, e.g. cardiovascular disease) are responsible for high rates of morbidity and the majority of premature deaths worldwide. It is necessary to develop preventative interventions that can reduce the associated risk factors of NCDs. Researchers have found that the biomarker adrenomedullin (ADM) becomes elevated years before the onset of NCDs and might...
July 17, 2018 Seiso Paul Cooper
This chapter explicates differences in style and intention of zazen – Zen sitting meditation – beginning with a discussion of the limits of the typical etymological definition of zazen as simply derivative of the Indian dhyana (meditation). Despite the fact that zazen holds a central position across various Zen sects, there are diverse descriptions regarding its form, function, goals, and...
July 17, 2018 Seiso Paul Cooper
Since the mid-1980s, a number of articles have appeared in the psychoanalytic literature regarding the relationship between the Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhist technique of vipassana or "mindfulness meditation" and psychoanalytic listening. Despite differences in theory and technique, the experience of personal analysis continues to serve as the sine qua non of effective psychoanalytic...
Journal of Psychiatry and Behaviour Therapy July 16, 2018
Purpose:To examine the effect of Raja-yoga group therapy on the immediate well-being of psychiatric outpatients compared to a standard method, namely supportive-dynamic group psychotherapy.Methods: Seventy-two psychiatric outpatients, the subjects, with DSM IV-R mood, anxiety and other disorders, underwent group therapy utilizing Raja-yoga treatment.The current Axis V GAF scores of the subjects...
Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences July 16, 2018 Rajeshree Tukaram Patil, Rajendra Tukaram Patil, Suresh Narayanrao Ughade et al. 1 citation
BACKGROUNDStress, depression and anxiety have a yearly prevalence of 10 to 20% in the general population.All factors that cause one's conditions to diverge too far from the normal homeostasis lead to stress.Our attempts to restore the condition back to homeostasis also leads to stress.Stress affects quality of life by affecting the factors like level of unhappiness, focus, sleep disturbances,...
OuvirOUver July 15, 2018 João Queiroz, Pedro Atã
For C.S. Peirce, mind is semiosis (sign-action) in a dialogical form, and cognition is the development of available semiotic material artifacts in which it is embodied as a power to produce interpretants (sign-effects). It takes the form of development of semiotic artifacts, such as writing tools, instruments of observation, notational systems, languages, and so forth. Our objective in this...
Millennium Journal of International Studies July 13, 2018 Badredine Arfi 6 citations
A key claim that Alexander Wendt makes in his book Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology is that he is not using the 'quantum' as a metaphor.Nor is he drawing analogies either.He argues that he is constructing a quantum theory of the human subject and social structures through a quantum-theoretic explanation of consciousness undergirded by a panpsychist...
The Maastricht Journal of Liberal Arts July 12, 2018 Lorena Ortiz Cabrero 1 citation
Despite distancing themselves from traditional religions, (Western) post-secular societies are still heavily concerned with ‘spirituality’ and other forms of self-realisation. Within our working postmodernist framework, where ‘truth’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘God’ are found to be relative, this concern often translates into a combination of religiously inspired practices – such as (Hinduist) yoga or...
BMC Psychiatry July 12, 2018 Kathryn Fletcher, Fiona Foley, Neil Thomas et al. 39 citations
BACKGROUND: The primary objective of this randomised controlled trial (RCT) is to establish the effectiveness of a novel online quality of life (QoL) intervention tailored for people with late stage (≥ 10 episodes) bipolar disorder (BD) compared with psychoeducation. Relative to early stage individuals, this late stage group may not benefit as much from existing psychosocial treatments. The...