The management of diabetes as a chronic disease requires constant care, adjustments of therapy and strong engagement of both the person with diabetes and the whole care team.However despite the educational and pedagogical efforts, the patient's adherence to the continuity of care, learning and conscious self-management of the illness, may remain open critical issues.The psycho-emotional...
The content of the paradigm of consciousness in psychology changed along with a change in the ideals of rationality. In classical psychology consciousness was identical with the psyche, it was studied as an isolated reality through a methodology borrowed from natural science. In non-classical psychology the problem of consciousness was on the periphery of psychological research and...
A main question in the scientific study of conscious perception is the nature of the dissociation between conscious and non-conscious perception. That is, it is crucial to use bias-free measures to evaluate perceptual sensitivity and response criterion of participants in the conscious and non-conscious tasks to evaluate this dissociation. The aim of this study is to evaluate sensitivity and...
A neurotheological approach suggests an analysis of spiritual awakening experiences by combining phenomenological data with neuroscience. This paper presents a synthesis combining information on the thoughts, feelings, and experiences associated with spiritual awakening experiences and neurophysiological data, primarily from neuroimaging studies, to help assess which brain structures might be...
NeuroimageSeptember 1, 2018Christine Blume, Renata Del Giudice, Malgorzata Wislowska et al.
While it is a well-established finding that subjects' own names (SON) and familiar voices are salient during wakefulness, we here investigated processing of environmental stimuli during sleep including deep N3 and REM sleep. Besides the effects of sleep depth we investigated how sleep-specific EEG patterns (i.e. sleep spindles and slow oscillations [SOs]) relate to stimulus processing. Using...
Ketamine and phencyclidine are well-known drugs of abuse of the arylcyclohexylamine class, the backbone of which is used for the synthesis of new psychoactive substances (NPS). In October 2017, a cluster of acute intoxications was encountered where patients presented with ketamine-like toxidrome. Upon initial toxicology screening, however, neither ketamine nor other causative agents were...
REM sleep is a state of desynchronized electrophysiological activity of the brain. It is usually accompanied by mental activity characterized by a succession of complex visual experiences commonly referred to as dreaming. Although REM sleep and dreaming are not implicitly conjoined, when they co-occur, they have a very distinct phenomenology, as, typically, the dream plot is bizarre and...
This is the second part of a consideration of the later Wilhelm Reich as anticipating a future planetary-wide “New Age” form of this-worldly spirituality in ways overlapping with figures from the same era of Western crisis from the 1930s through the 1950s, including Jung, Toynbee, Bergson, Heidegger, Teilhard de Chardin, and Simone Weil. Where the first part of this treatment of Reich as...
A great pioneer in sleep research, Michel Jouvet applied rigorous scientific methods to the study of sleep-wake states and associated changes in consciousness which, with his vivid imagination and creative mind, he unveiled as the mysteries of sleep and waking such as to inspire a generation of researchers in the field. His initial discovery of a third state distinguished from waking (W) and...
Organoids are three-dimensional biological structures grown in vitro from different kinds of stem cells that self-organise mimicking real organs with organ-specific cell types. Recently, researchers have managed to produce human organoids which have structural and functional properties very similar to those of different organs, such as the retina, the intestines, the kidneys, the pancreas, the...