University of Regensburg Publication Server
2016
Elena Fürnrohr
Die Therapie von stressassoziierten Gesundheitsproblemen stellt in heutigen Zeiten, die von einem enormen Anstieg von psychischen Problemen gekennzeichnet sind, eine anspruchsvolle Herausforderung dar. In Studien konnte die Wirksamkeit von Biofeedback (Crevenna 2010), Psychotherapie (Bühler et al. 2006) und achtsamkeitsbasierten Verfahren bei stressassoziierten psychischen Krankheiten (Teasdale...
2016
A. Shutaleva, E. Putilova
The article is devoted to analysis of the constitutive aspect of consciousness that manifests in the eventfulness of mind and the reality constituted by it, presented as a textual reality. Appeal to the understanding of space and text makes it possible to view the reading space as a metaphorical “twofold” space, which is constituted by intersection and superposition of “places” that, in their...
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
2016
Hongyu Yang, Amber M Leaver, Prabha Siddarth et al.
Behavioral interventions are becoming increasingly popular approaches to ameliorate age-related cognitive decline, but their underlying neurobiological mechanisms and clinical efficiency have not been fully elucidated. The present study explored brain plasticity associated with two behavioral interventions, memory enhancement training (MET) and a mind-body practice (yogic meditation), in...
Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
2016
Nükhet Aladağ-Çiftdemir, İlay Yücel, Rıdvan Duran et al.
Synthetic cannabinoids or synthetic marijuana derivatives known as "Bonzai" in Turkey are addictive substances that affect the brain and have serious side effects. In recent years, the use of these substances has also been increasing in our country as well as all over the world. These substances present with various names and brands, the most common names in Turkey are "Bonzai" and "Jamaika"....
Spiritus
2016
Bernadette Flanagan, Michael B. O'Sullivan
2 citations
Spirituality in Contemporary Ireland:Manifesting Indigeneity1 Bernadette Flanagan (bio) and Michael O’Sullivan (bio) The focus of this essay is an examination of a few of the contours of the spiritual search in contemporary Ireland, a society where the form and structures of a long dominant Roman Catholic tradition are becoming less influential and are being resisted, opposed, or rejected by...
PeerJ
2016
Jing J Wong, Owen O'Daly, Mitul A. Mehta et al.
Background. Ketamine has been reported to have efficacy as an antidepressant in several studies of treatment-resistant depression. In this study, we investigate whether an acute administration of ketamine leads to reductions in the functional connectivity of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) with other brain regions. Methods. Thirteen right-handed healthy male subjects underwent a 15...
Universal Journal of Psychology
2016
Borje Peratt
The title is, of course, an allusion to Darwin's classic book "On the Origin of Species."Here we are concerned with the question of whether there is actually an origin of consciousness or if consciousness is eternal and its availability limited by physical senses.A car crash in 1987 opened my mind to the possibility of consciousness existing independent of the senses i.e. independent of the...
2016
Juan José Garrido Periñán
This meditation is an attempt to think, from some of the major works of the young Heidegger before to Being and Time (1927), a phenomenology of being-in, so that to clarify the issue of spatiality in terms of dwelling. To this end, it is pursued a phenomenological analysis of Heidegger’s reading of Duns Scotus and then the criticism that he makes on Husserlian phenomenology, especially in its...
2016
H. Dieleman
T his article explores Bateson’s concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical ideas on phenomenology and embodied knowing, and neuroscientific ideas on embodied cognition. It equally links it with ancient oriental ideas regarding the relationship between body, mind and soul, and practices as meditation and yoga to nourish the body as an organ of perception. It then explores...
University writing server of the Justus Liebig University Giessen
2016
Anna Ovaska, Justus Liebig University Giessen
3 citations
Fictional narratives of mental illnesses often focus on individual experiences of pain, anxiety and suffering. As such, narratives depict the experiences of illness in a holistic way, revealing the embodied, situated and intersubjective in other words, emer-gent nature of psychiatric disorders. They are thus able to create a different kind of understanding of mental disorders than medicalizing...