VUBIR
2016
Francis Heylighen, Shima Beigi
11 citations
We approach the problem of the extended mind from a radically non-dualist perspective. The separation between mind and matter is an artefact of the outdated mechanistic worldview, which leaves no room for mental phenomena such as agency, intentionality, or feeling. We propose to replace it by an action ontology, which conceives mind and matter as aspects of the same network of processes. By...
Spiritus
2016
Barbara A. Holmes
Reviewed by: African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism by Joy R Barbara A. Holmes (bio) African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism. By Joy R. Bostic, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 179pp. $100.00 Joy Bostic’s work offers unique insights into the lives of black women mystics of the nineteenth century. When most of us hear the word...
Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science
2016
Dennis P. Heaton
The next generation of business leaders aspires to integrate financial success with social and environmental responsibility. A fundamental enabler of more enlightened business practice is a change of consciousness toward the compassion, comprehension, and courage needed to conduct business in a way that leads to sustainability and thriving. This chapter presents the system of...
Philosophy East and West
2016
Owen Flanagan
Does Yoga Induce Metaphysical Hallucinations?Interdisciplinarity at the Edge: Comments on Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being Owen Flanagan (bio) Waking, Dreaming, Being is an unusual book in many ways. I mention two. First, in some ways it is a memoir. Few philosophers started as a child doing the sort of philosophy that they did as a grown-up. Evan did. Evan grew up in the intellectually...
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...