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University of Illinois Press eBooks May 1, 2015 Stephen Siff 26 citations
Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while lesser outlets piggybacked on their coverage with stories by turns sensationalized and glowing. This book offers the untold tale...
Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking May 1, 2015 Laura Orsolini, Gabriele Duccio Papanti, Giulia Francesconi et al. 90 citations
Within online drug fora communities, there are some "educated and informed" users who can somehow provide reliable information on psychoactive compounds and combinations. These users, also called "e-psychonauts," may possess levels of technical knowledge relating to a range of novel psychoactive substances (NPS). The present project aimed at identifying and describing the e-psychonauts'...
Cambridge University Press eBooks April 20, 2015 Alexander E. Wendt
The dominant model of man in naturalistic social science today is materialist, ontologically deterministic, and mechanistic. At least it is no longer behaviorist too; although behavioralism remains strong, almost all social scientists agree that human behavior is affected by unobservable intentional states that must be dealt with as best we can. Yet while it is recognized that people have...
Cambridge University Press eBooks April 20, 2015 Alexander E. Wendt
Introduction We saw in Part I that in addition to explaining consciousness there is another hard problem for the modern scientific worldview – understanding what quantum physics is telling us about reality. And if anything this one is harder. In philosophy of mind there is at least consensus enough for an orthodox position to exist (materialism), and a widespread expectation that it will be...
Elife April 13, 2015 Ben M Crittenden, Daniel J Mitchell, John Duncan 202 citations
In the human brain, a default mode or task-negative network shows reduced activity during many cognitive tasks and is often associated with internally-directed processes, such as mind wandering and thoughts about the self. In contrast to this task-negative pattern, we show increased activity during a large and demanding switch in task set. Furthermore, we employ multivoxel pattern analysis and...
Medical Hypotheses April 11, 2015 Enrico Facco, Christian Agrillo, Bruce Greyson 61 citations
During the last decades an increasing interest has developed in the so-called altered state of consciousness (ASCs); among these, near-death experiences (NDEs) are one of the most intriguing and debated examples. NDEs are deep and universal experiences with a clear phenomenology and incidence, while some of their features challenge the current views of human consciousness (focused on neural...
Oxford Handbooks Online April 7, 2015 Andrew C. Papanicolaou
Brain activity during rest, as measured and imaged mainly by fMRI, appears to be due to a number of simultaneously active neuronal networks. The network identified first is the default mode network, which has been used as a marker of conscious awareness in patients with compromised consciousness. In this chapter, the methods of deriving this and other resting networks are outlined, the...
Neurology April 6, 2015 Sarah Dolgonos, Kamil Detyniecki
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate feasibility of and receptivity for stress-management training during neurology residency BACKGROUND: Exhaustion, sleep deprivation, and stress are widespread among residents. Studies have shown that physicians who undertake mindfulness training report decreased anger, fatigue, and depression, and an increased sense of personal accomplishment. Standardized mindfulness...
Sage Open April 1, 2015 Nandini Karunamuni 49 citations
The purpose of this article is to explore a model of the mind generally known as “the five aggregates” described in Buddhist teachings that relates to understanding subjective conscious experience from a first-person perspective. This model is explored as a potential theoretical resource that could guide meditation/mindfulness interventions. According to the five-aggregate model of the mind,...
Sleep Medicine Reviews April 1, 2015 Martin Dresler, Renate Wehrle, Victor I. Spoormaker et al.
The idea that dreaming can serve as a model for psychosis has a long and honourable tradition, however it is notoriously speculative. Here we demonstrate that recent research on the phenomenon of lucid dreaming sheds new light on the debate. Lucid dreaming is a rare state of sleep in which the dreamer gains insight into his state of mind during dreaming. Recent electroencephalogram (EEG) and...