Anthropological Theory
February 25, 2005
Sherry B. Ortner
420 citations
In the many works that try to bring back ‘the actor’ in some sense, there is a tendency to avoid questions of subjectivity, that is, complex ‘structures of feeling’ (in Raymond Williams’s phrase). This article returns to the work of Max Weber and Clifford Geertz to consider various issues of subjectivity, including both fundamental existential anxieties, and specific cultural and historical...
Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
February 1, 2005
Leanne Sheen, Jenny Oates
Critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation in intensive care units (ICUs) are usually sedated with drugs such as Morphine and Midazolam in order to facilitate ventilation, relieve pain and lower metabolic demands. Participants in this research were sedated to the point of 'medically induced unconsciousness' in that they were non eye opening nor responsive to verbal directives. A...
Movement Disorders
February 2005
Nico J Diederich, Christopher G Goetz, Glenn T Stebbins
Visual hallucinations (VH) in Parkinson's disease (PD) are a chronic complication in 30 to 60% of treated patients and have a multifaceted phenomenology. Flickering, faultive impressions, and illusionary misperceptions precede the core syndrome of stereotyped, colorful images. The patient variably recognizes these images as hallucinations, being rarely irritated or frightened and more often...
Neuropsychopharmacology
January 26, 2005
Olivia Carter, John D. Pettigrew, Felix Hasler et al.
122 citations
Binocular rivalry occurs when different images are presented simultaneously to corresponding points within the left and right eyes. Under these conditions, the observer's perception will alternate between the two perceptual alternatives. Motivated by the reported link between the rate of perceptual alternations, symptoms of psychosis and an incidental observation that the rhythmicity of...
Neurorehabilitation
January 22, 2005
Steven Laureys
The interest of functional imaging in patients in a vegetative state is twofold. First, the vegetative state continues to represent a major clinical and ethical problem, in terms of diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, everyday management and end-of-life decisions. Second, it offers a lesional approach to the study of human consciousness and adds to the international research effort on identifying...
The Mind as a Scientific Object
January 13, 2005
Don Ross
Abstract If the scientific study of consciousness was once neglected-as almost every book published on the subject begins by reminding us-the opposite has been the case during the past decade. Shelves groan with recent books, articles, and new journals as cognitive scientists crowd into the space left vacant since the project of “scientific phenomenology,” as Edmund Husserl imagined it, was...
The Mind as a Scientific Object
January 13, 2005
Timothy van Gelder
Abstract Wilfrid Sellars once famously described philosophy as aiming to understand how things, in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term (Sellars, 1962, p. 37). In the spirit of that suggestion, we can think of philosophy of mind as the attempt to say how minds hang together- how things fit to form minds, and how minds fit with other...
The Neuroscientist
January 4, 2005
Olaf Blanke, Shahar Arzy
468 citations
Folk psychology postulates a spatial unity of self and body, a "real me" that resides in one's body and is the subject of experience. The spatial unity of self and body has been challenged by various philosophical considerations but also by several phenomena, perhaps most notoriously the "out-of-body experience" (OBE) during which one's visuo-spatial perspective and one's self are experienced...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2005
Amos Yong
3 citations
Reviewed by: Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground Amos Yong Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground. Edited by B. Alan Wallace. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 444+ xvi pp. Increasingly, the world's religious traditions are making their presence felt in the science and religion dialogue that has been dominated for a long time by Christian voices. The essays collected in this...
Cognitive Neuropsychology
2005
Pascale Piolino, Didier Hannequin, Béatrice Desgranges et al.
We report the case of a 42-year-old man (patient CL) who developed a particular profile of amnesia with two dates of onset. At the first onset, the patient suffered a mild/lmoderate injury that accounts for an initial anterograde and mild retrograde memory impairment. At the second onset, 8 months later, he suffered a sudden and persistent loss of personal identity and severe retrograde...