Acta Paediatrica
February 23, 2007
Hugo Lagercrantz
27 citations
The moment of birth is the moral and legal point when human life must be preserved independent of gestational age, according to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (1). Alternative views such as the newly formed embryo or a baby with a capacity for self-awareness were proposed by some of the distinguished members of the council or working party, but the consensus was that birth is straightforward...
Philosophy and Religious Studies
February 16, 2007
Минин А. В.
The article considers ideas of two truths in Buddhist philosophy, relative truth and absolute truth, according to Tsonkapa's '' Stages on the Path to Bodhi'', Relative truth is the result of ignorance, producing ideas of Ego, Self, which have no corresponding reality. Absolute truth expresses level of mind on which knowledge, that there are no things existing by their own, by their own quality,...
Nature Neuroscience
February 2007
Navindra Persaud, Peter McLeod, Alan Cowey
The lack of an accepted measure of awareness has made claims that accurate decisions can be made without awareness controversial. Here we introduce a new objective measure of awareness, post-decision wagering. We show that participants fail to maximize cash earnings by wagering high following correct decisions in blindsight, the Iowa gambling task and an artificial grammar task. This...
Shinrigaku Kenkyu
February 2007
Naoyuki Osaka
Biological studies of human consciousness based on recent neuroimaging experiments, i.e., functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), were reviewed from the viewpoint of different functions of consciousness. A biological hierarchy of consciousness structured in three levels, i.e., arousal, awareness and self-consciousness, was reviewed in connection with...
Australasian Psychiatry
February 2007
James Graham Scott, Barry Nurcombe, Judith Sheridan et al.
The aim of the study was to compare the phenomenology of hallucinations in hospitalized adolescents diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psychotic disorder. Diagnoses were ascertained in 66 adolescents consecutively admitted to an acute adolescent unit in Australia. Hallucinations were examined to compare their phenomenology in PTSD with psychotic disorder. On most measures,...
Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
January 18, 2007
Graham Jamieson
Abstract This chapter aims to provide an overview of core issues in the development of the cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis and conscious states as they emerge in the following chapters. The integration of neurophysiological, behavioural and phenomenological data into broad theoretical frameworks spanning across traditionally discreet levels of analysis is highlighted. Functional connectivity...
Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
January 18, 2007
Tim Bayne
Abstract Hypnosis appears to generate unusual—and sometimes even astonishing—changes in the contents of consciousness. Hypnotic subjects report perceiving things that are not there, they report not perceiving things that are there, and they report unusual alterations in the phenomenology of agency. In addition to apparent alterations in the contents of consciousness, hypnosis also appears to...
Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
January 18, 2007
Ronald J Pekala, VK Kumar
Abstract Metzinger (1995) is his book, Conscious experience, wrote: ‘Today, the problem of consciousness… marks the very limit of human striving for understanding. It appears to many to be the last great puzzle and the greatest theoretical challenge of our time ‘ (p. 3). Research enumerated in this book suggests that consciousness can be elucidated through the scientific application of...
Journal of The American Geriatrics Society
2007
Colin S. Tan, Kah-Guan Au Eong
2 citations
To the Editor: We read with interest the report by Drs. McKoy and McGartland describing visual hallucinations in an elderly woman.1 Their patient had several ocular conditions that are known to be associated with Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS)—retinitis pigmentosa, cataracts, and, possibly, angle-closure glaucoma (as evidenced by the bilateral iridectomies). In addition, the patient was elderly,...
Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion
2007
Tim Murphy
5 citations
The dominant approach to the study of religion known as the phenomenology of religion's core assumption was that underlying the multiplicity of historical and geographically dispersed religions was an ultimately metaphysical, trans-historical substratum, called 'man', Geist, or 'consciousness'. This transhistorical substratum is an expressive agent with a uniform, essential nature. By reading...