HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
July 29, 2021
R. A. Northover
3 citations
The study reappraised Emile Durkheim’s totemic principle in relation to the origins of religion and culture, using, amongst others, speech act theory and recent southern African epistemologies, especially David Lewis-Williams’ theory of shamanism, potency and altered states of consciousness. The study was text-based, qualitative and interpretive, and used key texts from anthropology,...
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
July 28, 2021
Mark Hayward, Anna-Marie Jones, W. Strawson et al.
BACKGROUND The presence of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) does not currently feature in the main diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). However, there is accumulating evidence that a high proportion of BPD patients report longstanding and frequent AVH which constitute a significant risk factor for suicide plans and attempts, and hospitalisation. AIM This study...
Physical review. E
July 28, 2021
Yonatan Sanz Perl, Hernan Bocaccio, Carla Pallavicini et al.
82 citations
The cognitive functions of human and nonhuman primates rely on the dynamic interplay of distributed neural assemblies. As such, it seems unlikely that cognition can be supported by macroscopic brain dynamics at the proximity of equilibrium. We confirmed this hypothesis by investigating electrocorticography data from nonhuman primates undergoing different states of unconsciousness (sleep, and...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 27, 2021
Marleide da Mota Gomes, Antonio E Nardi
Charles Dickens outlined a variety of manifestations of sleep and its disturbances, which were presumably related to his own and those of family and friends, also expressed in some of his characters. There are many reports of the dream-reality confusion through the anguished young Oliver Twist, the protagonist of the book of the same name. The virtual world of dreams is important for Dickens’...
The Educational Review USA
July 27, 2021
Rehana Anwer, Muhammad Arfan Lodhi, S. Anam
1 citation
The work addresses the mystical elements in the selected poems of W. B. Yeats and Lal Shabaz Qalander. For this purpose, the concept of mysticism and Sufism was understood in the light of different material taken from books, journals and articles. After thorough study of concerned literature, the selected poems were analyzed on the mystic pattern as suggested by Elvyn Underhill’s book on the...
Brain Sciences
July 25, 2021
Alicja Różyk-myrta, Andrzej Brodziak, Małgorzata Muc-Wierzgoń
18 citations
The known theories discussing the essence of consciousness have been recently updated. This prompts an attempt to integrate these explanations concerning several distinct components of the consciousness phenomenon such as the ego, and qualia perceptions. Therefore, it is useful to consider the latest publications on the 'Orch OR' and 'cemi' theories, which assume that quantum processing occurs...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
July 23, 2021
Lennart R.b. Spindler, Andrea I. Luppi, Ram Adapa et al.
Significance Understanding the neural bases of consciousness is of basic scientific and clinical importance. Human neuroimaging has established that a network of interconnected brain regions known as the default mode network disintegrates in anesthesia and after brain damage that causes disorders of consciousness. However, the neurochemical underpinnings of this network change remain largely...
World Soul
July 22, 2021
Valia Allori
Quantum mechanics is a groundbreaking theory: it not only is extraordinarily empirically adequate but also is claimed to having shattered the classical paradigm of understanding the observer-observed distinction as well as the part-whole relation. This, together with other quantum features, has been taken to suggest that quantum theory can help one understand the mind-body relation in a unique...
Primenjena psihologija
July 20, 2021
Katija Kalebić Jakupčević, Ina Reić Ercegovac, Snježana Dobrota
5 citations
The aim of this research was to determine the relationship between mindfulness, absorption in music, and emotion regulation through music in people who have different tastes in music. The research started from the assumption that absorption in music means the possibility of deep “absorption” in musical experience and thus a greater possibility of emotion regulation through music. In contrast to...
Neuroscience Insights
July 20, 2021
Vladan Bajic, Natasa Misic, Ivana Stankovic et al.
Does Alzheimer Disease show a decline in cognitive functions that relate to the awareness of external reality? In this paper, we will propose a perspective that patients with increasing symptoms of AD show a change in the awareness of subjective versus objective representative axis of reality thus consequently move to a more internal like perception of reality. This paradigm shift suggests that...