Schizophrenia Research
December 19, 1997
Jorge Ciprian-Ollivier, M G Cetkovich-Bakmas
34 citations
Interest in the role of indolamines in the pathogenesis of psychoses has been renewed in recent years by the development of atypical antipsychotic drugs such as clozapine, olanzapine, and risperidone, which act on serotonin receptors. Discovery of the hallucinogenic compounds called methylated indolealkyalamines (MIAs) (e.g. N,N-dimethylserotonin, or bufotenin, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine, or...
The Innate Capacity
December 4, 1997
Diane Jonte-Pace
Abstract NEARLY A CENTURY after William James initiated the psychological study of mysticism with the publication of The Varieties of Religious Experience, Robert Forman has returned to James’s project by issuing a call for a psychologia perennis. This “perennial psychology” would investigate mystical or nonordinary states of consciousness and the transformative processes that produce them....
The Innate Capacity
December 4, 1997
Robert K C Forman
Abstract It is commonly observed that many, if not most, seminal religious leaders have undergone some form of mystical experiences. Less commonly known is how surprisingly widespread such experiences are; summarizing several large-scale studies, David Hay, in Religious Experience Today, concludes that nearly half-43 percent of all Americans and 48 percent of all British people-have had one or...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 1, 1997
N J Woolf
Excitation at widely dispersed loci in the cerebral cortex may represent a neural correlate of consciousness. Accordingly, each unique combination of excited neurons would determine the content of a conscious moment. This conceptualization would be strengthened if we could identify what orchestrates the various combinations of excited neurons. In the present paper, cholinergic afferents to the...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
November 13, 1997
Julia Ching
1 citation
INTRODUCTION We are speaking of the appropriation of the sage-king paradigm by the philosophers. This appropriation became further strengthened with the evolution of the theory of Oneness of Heaven and humanity ( T'ien-jen ho-yi ). This theory is usually interpreted within a metaphysical framework. I am doing so while keeping in mind the political Mandate of Heaven, as I understand by the term...
Neural Networks
October 1, 1997
W. Freeman
Recent interest in consciousness and the mind-brain problem has been fueled by technological advances in brain imaging and computer modeling in artificial intelligence: can machines be conscious? The machine metaphor originated in Cartesian "reflections" and culminated in 19th century reflexology modeled on Newtonian optics. It replaced the Aquinian view of mind, which was focused on the...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
October 1, 1997
Ronald Maurer, V K Kumar, L Woodside et al.
46 citations
Participants (N = 206) experienced 15-min of monotonous drumming either before or after hypnosis (Harvard scale). Participants completed the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI) in reference to the last 4-min of drumming. Stimulus order did not affect the objective trance levels as measured by the Harvard scores. The subjective trance level as measured by hypnoidal scores (predicted...
Advances in Consciousness Research
September 2, 1997
The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of the interpretation of ‘conscious’ and ‘unconscious’ mind in the theoretical discourse of modern...
August 28, 1997
Colin Mcginn
Abstract To casual inspection, the history of the universe would appear to have been marked by three great upsurges. In the beginning, came matter in spaceparticles, planets, galaxies. Physics is the science of this primordial being: it seeks to say what the laws of matter are, and (if possible) how matter came to exist in the first place. After this initial upsurge, nothing essentially novel...
Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
July 1, 1997
F Röhricht, S Priebe
Disturbances of body experience in schizophrenia patients occur frequently. They vary phenomenologically and lack exact and distinct definitions. Their theoretical and clinical relevance remains widely unclear. This review summarises the literature on clinically relevant symptoms such as coenaesthesis and body hallucinations, disturbances of pain perception, out-of-body-experiences,...