Mens Sana Monographs
January 2006
Donelson E Dulany
What the title of this article means to me after decades on a university faculty is very broad. It would include topics of my research and writing, of my graduate and undergraduate teaching, and of what I read in the area, including papers that have been submitted to me as editor of the American Journal of Psychology. What I can write here focuses on my research and writing and related...
International Journal of Neuroscience
2006
Yi Jin, J. O'Halloran, L. Plon et al.
Studies have suggested that consciousness is encoded discretely in time and synchronously in space of the brain. The present study was to model the alpha EEG as a brain clock to carry out the functions and to test whether the quality and rate of the oscillation could predict behavioral timing. Results showed that the alpha peak frequency was correlated with the conflict reaction time, and the...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2006
Nikolai Gruzdev
2 citations
This study examined the relation of altered states of consciousness to neuroticization, spiritual experience, and divergent thinking in a sample of women (N= 102) at late pregnancy and post-delivery.The results suggest that stress associated with imminent childbirth is linked to higher levels of ASCs and that neuroticization and spirituality seem to be implicated in the induction of ASCs.
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
2006
Giovanni Liotti
The article offers an historical review of studies on the role played by attachment processes in dissociative psychopathology. The treatise proceeds from Bowlby's first insights, through Main and her collaborators' empirical studies on attachment disorganization, to the first formulation of the hypothesis linking disorganized early attachment to pathological dissociation. Recent research...
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2006
Yajing Zhang, Ruiping Wang, Bo Hong et al.
Binocular rivalry is a visual perceptual phenomenon which occurs when two incongruent stimuli are viewed by a subject through each eye, but only one of them is perceived at a time, with a switch in perception every few seconds, which reflects the alternation of perceptual dominance. To investigate the correlation between contrast-related perception and neural activities, the subjects' EEGs were...
Neuropsychologia
2006
Margarita Sarri, Felix Blankenburg, Jon Driver
We used fMRI to study the neural correlates of crossmodal, visual-tactile extinction in a single case (patient GK). GK has chronic extinction after a lesion centred on right inferior parietal cortex, and has previously been investigated extensively in purely visual fMRI studies [e.g. Rees, G., Wojciulik, E., Clarke, K., Husain, M., Frith, C., & Driver, J. (2000). Unconscious activation of...
Perspectives in biology and medicine
2006
Richard P Sloan, Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan
Among the many recent attempts to demonstrate the medical benefits of religious activity, the methodologically strongest seem to be studies of the effects of distant intercessory prayer (IP). In these studies, patients are randomly assigned to receive standard care or standard care plus the prayers or "healing intentions" of distant intercessors. Most of the scientific community has dismissed...
Brain
January 2006
Juergen Fell, Guillén Fernández, Martin T Lutz et al.
Compared with waking state attention, volition and semantic processing play a minor role during sleep. Thus, investigating declarative memory formation during sleep may allow us to isolate mnemonic core processes. The most feasible approach to memory formation during sleep is the analysis of dream memories. Lesion and imaging studies have demonstrated that encoding of declarative memories, i.e....
Social Analysis
2006
Dan Merkur
6 citations
Drawing on phenomenology and his clinical practice, the author explores religious experience and the dynamics of the numinous. The article opens with the argument that psychoanalysts, like religious healers, should be able to work with religious phenomena as part of psychoanalytic therapy. The origin of the term 'numinous' is explained, and two types of human religious experience, mysterium...
OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research
2006
Jonathan J. Wright, Gaynor Sadlo, Graham Stew
The process of flow, a psychological state that seems to occur during optimal human experience, is currently unclear. This exploratory study examines how flow begins and what happens during and after a flow experience. A phenomenological approach was taken to examine the flow experiences of an artist, a musician, and a horticulturist. Participants kept journals and participated in...