Neuroimage
January 11, 2019
Michele A. Colombo, Martino Napolitani, Melanie Boly et al.
359 citations
Despite the absence of responsiveness during anesthesia, conscious experience may persist. However, reliable, easily acquirable and interpretable neurophysiological markers of the presence of consciousness in unresponsive states are still missing. A promising marker is based on the decay-rate of the power spectral density (PSD) of the resting EEG. We acquired resting electroencephalogram (EEG)...
Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies
January 9, 2019
Bogusław Olszewski
Zaburzenia psychiczne stają się plagą współczesnych społeczeństw postindustrialnych, poddanych oddziaływaniu szybko ewoluującego otoczenia cywilizacyjnego. W połowieubiegłego wieku odkrycie potencjału LSD i psylocybiny znalazło zastosowanie na gruncie psychologii, a wśród prekursorów jego wykorzystania w psychoterapii był pracownik Uniwersytetu Harvarda, twórca interpersonalnej teorii...
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
2019
Joshua P. Aronson
If you think there are no Jewish traditions about life after death and the phenomena of the near-death experience (NDE), this book will make an important addition to your library. Jewish Views of the Afterlife contains extensive research on many texts showing a complex skein of Jewish views on life after death. Its sources include the Bible, the Apocrypha, rabbinic teachings, medieval...
Progress in Brain Research
2019
Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Federica Mauro, Stefano Lasaponara et al.
Absorption, the ability to highly focus attention, as well as openness to self-altering experiences, is an important psychological construct, closely related to deep-meditation states and other altered states of consciousness. Yet, little is known about the electrophysiological profile of states of absorption, possibly due to the difficulty to induce this state in the lab. While most studies...
Peace and Conflict Studies
2019
Peter Chong-Beng Gan
3 citations
Testimonial reports of mystics highlight an experience of peace in the midst of their mystical encounters, despite claiming that these encounters resist description. What I intend to do is to explore ways in which mystical peace, in combination with several principal features of the mystical life, is able to afford some special means in the initiation and building of peace in the world. These...
Open Theology
2019
Michael D. Barber
Abstract Amplifying the idea of religious experience as occurring within an encompassing “religious province of meaning” and developing the personal character of the experience of God in the Abrahamic religious traditions, this paper argues that mystics in those traditions experience God “objectively.” Their experience of God is that of experiencing God as what Alfred Schutz called a...
Frontiers in Neurology
2019
Serena Scarpelli, Aurora D'Atri, Chiara Bartolacci et al.
Several findings underlined that the electrophysiological (EEG) background of the last segment of sleep before awakenings may predict the presence/absence of dream recall (DR) in young subjects. However, little is known about the EEG correlates of DR in elderly people. Only an investigation found differences between recall and non-recall conditions during NREM sleep EEG in older adults,...
Frontiers in Psychology
2019
Michael S Chin, Stefanos N Kales
Flow describes a state of optimal experience that can promote a positive adaptation to increasing stress. The aim of the current study is to identify the ideal autonomic state for peak cognitive performance by correlating sympathovagal balance during cognitive stress with (1) perceived flow immersion and (2) executive task performance. Autonomic states were varied in healthy male participants...
International Journal of Yoga
2019
R. Soni, M. Muniyandi
Context: Reliable quantitative measure of meditation is still elusive. Although electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart rate variability (HRV) are known as quantitative measures of meditation, effects of meditation on EEG and HRV may well take long time as these measures are involuntarily controlled. Effect of mediation on respiration is well known; however, quantitative measures of respiration...
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
2019
Jonathan Kopel
Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been a source of controversy within academia and the public. NDEs occur in 10% to 20% of patients who have come close to death and consist of vivid, subjective experiences that occur during life-threatening emergencies. Specifically, NDEs include out-of-body experiences, pleasant feelings, seeing deceased relatives, a life review, or a conscious return into...