Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
February 1, 2022
Lorenzo Moccia, Eliana Conte, Marianna Ambrosecchia et al.
Anorexia nervosa-restrictive subtype (AN-R) is a life-threatening disorder relying on behavioural abnormalities, such as excessive food restriction or exercise. Such abnormalities may be secondary to an "objectified" attitude toward body image and self. This is the first study exploring the impact of anomalous self-experience (ASEs) on abnormal body image attitude and eating disorder (ED)...
Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
January 31, 2022
J. Shand
The ‘hard’ problem of consciousness is the seemingly intractable one of explaining the properties of consciousness in terms of the properties of physical objects. This is often seen mistakenly as a metaphysical problem, whereby the properties of physical things are of such a nature and so unlike mental properties that it is difficult to understand how the physical could ever explain...
Дискурс
January 31, 2022
A. I. Ponomarev, K. G. Frolov
Introduction. Empirical studies of recent years convincingly show that the character of sensory perception can be influenced by non-cognitive mental states of the agent, such as her desires. The aim of the paper is to analyze how this causal connection between agent's wishes and her sensations can affect the epistemological status of dependent sensations.Methodology and sources. The author...
Int. J. Online Biomed. Eng.
January 26, 2022
Athanasios Drigas, Eleni Mitsea, C. Skianis
Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Aldous Huxley, Sergei Rachmanicoff, Chopin, Goethe. What dothese people have in common? They all used hypnosis to explore and expand the boundaries of their intelligence. The aim of the current review is to investigate the impact of clinical hypnosis on Metacognition, Consciousness and Intelligence based on the counterpart model. Furthermore, we...
Gevher Nesibe Journal IESDR
January 25, 2022
Fadime Çınar, Selçuk Görmez
Objectıves: Patients with cardiac arrest (CA) who undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation may experience cognitive processes, and some may accurately describe the events experienced during the arrest, indicating the presence of consciousness. The aim of this study was to investigate the approaches to near death experiences in patients who returned to life after cardiac arrest. Materials and...
Snapshots from Home
January 25, 2022
K.M. Fierke
This chapter moves to an exploration of the relationship between emptiness and ‘no mind’. Mindfulness is usually associated with some form of meditation. The latter is also central to Eastern traditions of fighting. The chapter connects self to mind and action while also revealing how something formless, that is, no-mind, can express intention and action, and how this action, embedded in a...
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
January 25, 2022
Azenet Lopez
25 citations
How are attention and consciousness related? Can we learn what the contents of someone’s consciousness are if we know the targets of their attention? What can we learn about the contents of consciousness if we know the targets of attention? Although introspection might suggest that attention and consciousness are intimately connected, a good body of recent findings in cognitive psychology and...
Research Square
January 25, 2022
Joseph T. la Torre, Mehdi Mahammadli, Kyle T. Greenway et al.
18 citations
preprint
Abstract Background Currently, personal or familial histories of psychotic symptoms are exclusionary criteria for most psychedelic clinical trials, studies, and treatment programs. This study sought to determine why such an exclusion exists, what the implications of the exclusion criteria are, and if there was agreement in expert opinion. Methods In-depth interviews with 12 experts in the...
Psychopharmacology
January 24, 2022
Kim van Oorsouw, S. W. Toennes, J. G. Ramaekers
71 citations
RATIONALE: Studies have suggested mental health improvements following the use of the psychotropic plant concoction ayahuasca in non-clinical and clinical samples. OBJECTIVES: The present observational study assessed depressive symptomatology in 20 clinically depressed patients (symptom score > 13 on the Beck's Depression Inventory) before attendance of an ayahuasca ceremony and 1 month and 1...
Religions
January 23, 2022
Jennifer Carmichael
1 citation
The human response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a concerning decline in empathy for each other and the planet. A dualistic conception of mind and body coupled with a capitalist society that requires belief in an inherent self to fuel consumerism both complicate our ability to empathize because these ideas reify our conventional self. This paper argues that an understanding of the...