Consciousness and Cognition
October 2017
Boris B. Velichkovsky
Working memory has long been thought to be closely related to consciousness. However, recent empirical studies show that unconscious content may be maintained within working memory and that complex cognitive computations may be performed on-line. This promotes research on the exact relationships between consciousness and working memory. Current evidence for working memory being a conscious as...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
October 1, 2017
E R Katonai, Anna Szekely, A Vereczkei et al.
Hypnotizability is related to the Val158Met polymorphism of the COMT gene. The authors' aim was to find associations between candidate genes and subjective dimensions of hypnosis; 136 subjects participated in hypnosis and noninvasive DNA sampling. The phenomenological dimensions were tapped by the Archaic Involvement Measure (AIM), the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI), and the...
Studia Humana
October 1, 2017
Bernardo Kastrup
2 citations
Abstract Questions about the nature of reality and consciousness remain unresolved in philosophy today, but not for lack of hypotheses. Ontologies as varied as physicalism, microexperientialism and cosmopsychism enrich the philosophical menu. Each of these ontologies faces a seemingly fundamental problem: under physicalism, for instance, we have the ‘hard problem of consciousness,’ whereas...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
October 1, 2017
Charles W. Schindler, Benjamin R Gramling, Zuzana Justinova et al.
The misuse of synthetic cannabinoids is a persistent public health concern. Because these drugs target the same cannabinoid receptors as the active ingredient of marijuana, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), we compared the effects of synthetic cannabinoids and THC on body temperature and cardiovascular parameters. Biotelemetry transmitters for the measurement of body temperature or blood pressure...
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
October 2017
Jorge Gonçalves
Identified as a mental disorder by Emil Kraepelin and Eugen Bleuler (1858-1939), schizophrenia has been subject to various criticisms, on both political and scientific grounds. Still, until the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, as the'Spectrum of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders'. In this article, we will assume a neutral conception...
Death Studies
October 1, 2017
Simone Bianco, Marco Sambin, Arianna Palmieri
This study aims to investigate the processes used by individuals to integrate a near-death experience (NDE) and to discuss the use of a meaning-making component to help people who have had such experiences. A psychotherapist interviewed six individuals who reported having had a NDE. Transcripts of the interviews were coded using an interpretative phenomenological analysis. The authors...
Sleep Medicine Reviews
October 1, 2017
Carlo Cipolli, Michele Ferrara, Luigi De Gennaro et al.
Recent advances in electrophysiological [e.g., surface high-density electroencephalographic (hd-EEG) and intracranial recordings], video-polysomnography (video-PSG), transcranial stimulation and neuroimaging techniques allow more in-depth and more accurate investigation of the neural correlates of dreaming in healthy individuals and in patients with brain-damage, neurodegenerative diseases,...
Consciousness and Cognition
October 1, 2017
Marek Binder, Krzysztof Gociewicz, Bert Windey et al.
According to the levels-of-processing hypothesis, transitions from unconscious to conscious perception may depend on stimulus processing level, with more gradual changes for low-level stimuli and more dichotomous changes for high-level stimuli. In an event-related fMRI study we explored this hypothesis using a visual backward masking procedure. Task requirements manipulated level of processing....
Medicine Anthropology Theory
September 28, 2017
Lisa Jenny Krieg, Moritz Berning, Anita Hardon
26 citations
Based on a study of more than twenty thousand reports on drug experiences from the online drug education portal Erowid, this article argues that the integration of ethnographic methods with computational methods and digital data analysis, including so-called big data, is not only possible but highly rewarding. The analysis of ‘natively’ digital data from sites like Facebook, message boards, and...
September 25, 2017
Jean‐Paul Sartre
For a decade or two in post-war Europe, Jean-Paul Sartre&s;s philosophy of consciousness caught the public imagination like no other before or since. Sartre took his primary influence from the phenomenology of Husserl and fashioned from it and other philosophical and literary inspirations the French existentialist model, which swept across Western culture. Sartre&s;s vision was of a...