Annals of Internal Medicine
March 1, 1979
R. C. Stillman, Robert C. Petersen
38 citations
Editorials1 March 1979The Paradox of Phencyclidine (PCP) AbuseRICHARD STILLMAN, M.D., ROBERT C. PETERSEN, PH.D.RICHARD STILLMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, ROBERT C. PETERSEN, PH.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-90-3-428 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack...
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1979
Austine S. O. Okwu
Over the years, studies of materials about Africa, especially in the fields of religion, history, anthropology, culture, and sociology, have contributed to the reconstruction of the predominant modes of thought and reason that led to the rise of the people’s belief systems, values, and religious doctrines. Though limited in many ways and still in the most rudimentary stage, the study of African...
Revue d'electroencephalographie et de neurophysiologie clinique
1979
J P Banquet, J C Bourzeix, N Lesèvre
Characteristics of Visual Evoked Potentials (N120, P200, P300) were investigated during choice reaction time situations in a group of 10 subjects practising meditation (E.S.) versus a matched control group (C.S.) During a series of visual stimuli occuring at fixed intervals, with 10% random omissions, the subjects were asked : 1) to respond by a finger displacement to each visual stimulus; 2)...
Ciba Foundation symposium
1979
T J Crow
The diagnosis of schizophrenia is established principally by the presence of certain psychological symptoms which although subjective can be reliably assessed by standardized interviewing procedures. The most characteristic symptoms (Schneider's first-rank symptoms) fall into three groups: (a) auditory hallucinations of particular types, (b) 'ego-boundary disturbances', including intrusions...
September 1, 1978
R. Hood
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Anticipatory Set and Setting: Stress Incongruities as Elicitors of Mystical Experience in Solitary Nature Situations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 279-287
American Journal of Psychiatry
March 1978
R K Siegel
The author reviews the literature on hallucinations that occur as a result of acute and chronic administration of cocaine. He examined the phenomenology of cocaine hallucinations in a group of 85 recreational cocaine users, 15 of whom reported hallucinatory experiences in visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory, and gustatory modalities. He discusses a new phenomenon of "snow lights" in terms of...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1978
Derek A. Stern, Graham S. Saayman, Stephen Touyz
13 citations
This experiment tested the hypothesis that demand characteristics, as outlined by Orne (1962), may affect dream content. Twelve subjects, allocated to two matched groups balanced for age and sex, were selected on the basis of good dream recall from 94 volunteer psychology I students. Subjects were involved in the study for 15 consecutive nights, three of which were laboratory recording nights,...
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
1978
Reiner Schürmann
10 citations
THE LOSS OF THE ORIGIN IN SOTO ZEN AND IN MEISTER ECKHART SEVERAL JAPANESE AUTHORS who have come into contact with the Western tradition have underlined similarities between key concepts in Zen Buddhism and in Meister Eckhart.1 Sometimes their statements, for instance Suzuki's, betray a rather superficial acquaintance with the schools of thought that intersectinEckhart'shighly syncretistic...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
1978
Gordon Claridge
59 citations
Some of the difficulties of trying to establish an animal model of schizophrenia are first considered. Then, after a review of the evidence on the experimental psychopathology of schizophrenia, particularly that concerned with attention and arousal, it is concluded that the core feature which needs to be modeled in animals is some aspect of "input dysfunction." It is argued that, of the...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
October 1, 1977
M. L. Griffin, D. Foulkes
29 subjects attempted, over a period of 10 nights, to influence their dreams using techniques described in Garfield's book, Creative Dreaming (1974). A target suggestion was selected from a list of six suggestions compiled by, or for, each subject. Subjects kept daily records during the experiment both of their efforts at dream influence and of the dreams they recalled. Four judges attempted to...