Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
March 16, 2017
Giuseppe Riva, Silvia Serino, Daniele Di Lernia et al.
Progress in medical science and technology drastically improved physicians’ ability to interact with patient’s physical body. Nevertheless, medicine still addresses the human body from a Hippocratic point of view, considering the organism and its processes just as a matter of mechanics and fluids. However, the interaction between the cognitive neuroscience of bodily self-consciousness (BSC),...
March 8, 2017
r/Science AMAs
Thank you everybody for participating in this session! I really enjoyed it. Logging off now! Hello! I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. At Birmingham I work mainly in the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. At the moment I am not teaching undergraduates because I am in charge of a major project that takes most of my time, but I have ten PhD students working on...
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien
March 6, 2017
Karl-Klaus Madert
Achtsamkeit als Funktionszustand erweitert die Fähigkeit des Psychotherapeuten und der Psychotherapeutin zum mitfühlenden Kontakt, der die Voraussetzung für eine heilsame Traumabehandlung ist. Achtsamkeit, wie in der Zen-Meditation geübt, als Mittel zur Stärkung von Selbstreferenz, ist notwendig, um zwischen Ich-Selbst und der im Spiegelneuronensystem gespiegelten Befindlichkeit eines...
Brain Informatics
March 2017
Sushil Chandra, Greeshma Sharma, Mansi Sharma et al.
Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) is a type of rhythmic breathing activity, trivially a form of Pranayama that stimulates physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. The objective of the present work is to verify the effect of meditation in optimizing task efficiency and regulating stress. It builds on to quantitatively answer if SKY will increase workload tolerance for divided attention tasks...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
March 1, 2017
Konrad Werner
I shall propose metaphilosophy of mind as the philosophy of mind investigating mind. That is to say, I pose the question of how knowledge of mind provided by cognitive science, broadly construed, is constrained by the epistemic position of the knower, i.e. by the very fact that it is undertaken by a mind. Here I would like to propose a minimal framework, based on two distinctions: (i) the...
Brain and Cognition
March 1, 2017
Leon De Bruin, John Michael
Over the past few years, the prediction error minimization (PEM) framework has increasingly been gaining ground throughout the cognitive sciences. A key issue dividing proponents of PEM is how we should conceptualize the relation between brain, body and environment. Clark advocates a version of PEM which retains, at least to a certain extent, his prior commitments to Embodied Cognition and to...
Neural Networks
March 1, 2017
Stephen Grossberg
The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how we experience qualia or phenomenal experiences, such as seeing, hearing, and feeling, and knowing what they are. To solve this problem, a theory of consciousness needs to link brain to mind by modeling how emergent properties of several brain mechanisms interacting together embody detailed properties of individual conscious...
Integrative Pediatrics
February 24, 2017
Hilary H. McClafferty
The use of mind–body therapies reaches back through history in the form of meditation and other spiritual practices focused on health and healing. In the modern medical setting, mind–body therapies are used to harness the connections between emotions and physiology to benefit health with a secular philosophy and intent. Common mind–body therapies include breath work, biofeedback, guided...
International Journal for the Study of New Religions
February 20, 2017
Graham St John
10 citations
With clinical psychiatrist Rick Strassman's DMT: The Spirit Molecule as a vehicle, the pineal gland has become a popularly enigmatic organ that quite literally excretes mystery. Strassman’s top selling book documented ground-breaking clinical trials with the powerful mind altering compound DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) conducted at the University of New Mexico in the early 1990s. Inflected with...
Frontiers in Psychology
February 17, 2017
Vedat Şar
The nature of consciousness and the autonomy of the individual's mind have been a focus of interest throughout the past century and inspired many theories and models. Revival of studies on psychological trauma and dissociation, which remained outside mainstream psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis for the most part of the past century, has provided a new opportunity to revisit this...