Consciousness and Cognition
December 2006
Alan Costall
According to the majority of the textbooks, the history of modern, scientific psychology can be tidily encapsulated in the following three stages. Scientific psychology began with a commitment to the study of mind, but based on the method of introspection. Watson rejected introspectionism as both unreliable and effete, and redefined psychology, instead, as the science of behaviour. The...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
December 1, 2006
Jean-Pierre Changeux
The question is raised of the relevance of experimental work with the mouse and some of its genetically modified individuals in the study of consciousness. Even if this species does not go far beyond the level of 'minimal consciousness', it may be a useful animal model to examine the elementary building blocks of consciousness using the methods of molecular biology jointly with investigations...
Archives of General Psychiatry
December 1, 2006
Antoine del Cul, Stanislas Dehaene, Marion Leboyer
Background: Studies of visual backward masking have frequently revealed an elevated masking threshold in schizophrenia. This finding has frequently been interpreted as indicating a low-level visual deficit. However, more recent models suggest that masking may also involve late and higher-level integrative processes, while leaving intact early bottom-up visual processing. Objective: To test the...
Schizophrenia Research
December 2006
Massoud Stephane, Giuseppe Pellizzer, Susan Roberts et al.
Evidence indicates that the neuropathology of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) varies according to their phenomenological characteristics. Therefore, AVH should be subgrouped accordingly in hallucinations research. As evaluation of these characteristics depends entirely on the patient report, obtaining measurement of the reliability of these reports is crucial. A computerized binary scale...
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
December 1, 2006
Andrew Bailey
In its recent history, the philosophy of mind has come to resemble an entry into the genre of Hammer horror or pulpy science fiction. These days it is unusual to encounter a major philosophical work on the mind that is not populated with bats, homunculi, swamp-creatures, cruelly imprisoned genius scientists, aliens, cyborgs, other-worldly twins, self-aware Computer programs,...
PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie
December 2006
Norbert-Ullrich Neumann, Karel Frasch
Meditation in general can be understood as a state of complete and unintentional silent and motionless concentration on an activity, an item or an idea. Subjectively, meditative experience is said to be fundamentally different from "normal" mental states and is characterized by terms like timelessness, boundlessness and lack of self-experience. In recent years, several fMRI- and PET-studies...
Schizophrenia Research
December 1, 2006
Dagmar Koethe, Christoph W Gerth, Miriam A Neatby et al.
Recent data on alterations of the endogenous cannabinoid system in schizophrenia have raised the question of its functional role in this disease. The psychoactive compound of Cannabis sativa, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta9-THC), has been shown to induce psychotic symptoms, but it is unknown to what extend prodromal states of psychoses are reflected by these experimental approaches. This...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
November 21, 2006
Relative blindsight in normal observers and the neural correlate of visual consciousness.
International Forum of Psychoanalysis
November 20, 2006
Per-Einar Binder
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This article examines the relevance of relationally oriented psychoanalytic phenomenology as a frame of reference for understanding psychotic states in schizophrenia. The etiology and structural characteristics of such states are examined from both a neurophysiological, and a relational and interpersonal point of view. Many findings indicate organic abnormalities in schizophrenia, acquired...
Fordham University Press eBooks
November 15, 2006
Lothar Schäfer
This chapter examines Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's view on the emergence of consciousness in biological evolution and quantum reality. There are three aspects of physical reality that provide an important framework for the vision of Teilhard de Chardin, which had no basis in the outgoing mechanistic-materialistic worldview of the science of his time. These aspects of physical reality include...