Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
2016
Mahesh Ramanna Gowda, Preethi Srinivasa, Prabha S Kumbar et al.
Ketamine, a primarily FDA-approved anaesthetic agent is also used as recreational drug. Based on preclinical findings and later the clinical observations it is noted to have rapid antidepressant effect due to its mechanisms related to NMDA antagonism. In spite of established evidence of ketamine being effective in depression with significant role in treatment resistant cases as well, there was...
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
2016
Georgia Feliou
In this paper, the nature of spiritual or mystical experiences is discussed. An effort to sketch phenomenological criteria for differentiating these experiences from psychotic and depressive episodes is also provided, based on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology and on Anthony Steinbock’s analysis. Key words Spiritual or mystical experiences, Dark Night of the Soul, mysticism, schizophrenia,...
2016
Juan José Garrido Periñán
This meditation is an attempt to think, from some of the major works of the young Heidegger before to Being and Time (1927), a phenomenology of being-in, so that to clarify the issue of spatiality in terms of dwelling. To this end, it is pursued a phenomenological analysis of Heidegger’s reading of Duns Scotus and then the criticism that he makes on Husserlian phenomenology, especially in its...
2016
H. Dieleman
T his article explores Bateson’s concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical ideas on phenomenology and embodied knowing, and neuroscientific ideas on embodied cognition. It equally links it with ancient oriental ideas regarding the relationship between body, mind and soul, and practices as meditation and yoga to nourish the body as an organ of perception. It then explores...
UKnowledge
2016
Jessica D. King
1 citation
This qualitative study used the phenomenological method to examine how therapists use mindfulness therapies and interventions to address trauma-salient issues with their clients. Specifically, it explored therapists’ use of and choices about mindfulness-based treatments when addressing post-traumatic stress symptoms, and trauma-relevant emotion dysregulation and attachment injury. Informants...
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
2016
Jesús Pérez-Pérez, Javier Pagonabarraga, Ramón Fernández-Bobadilla et al.
The aim of this work was to report on 7 patients presenting a distinctive form of multimodal (tactile and visual) hallucinations for which the term "string hallucinations" is proposed. Having observed a patient interacting with imaginary strips of skin in his hands at our movement disorders unit, we prospectively studied PD patients and caregivers over a 6-month period using a semistructured...
University writing server of the Justus Liebig University Giessen
2016
Anna Ovaska, Justus Liebig University Giessen
3 citations
Fictional narratives of mental illnesses often focus on individual experiences of pain, anxiety and suffering. As such, narratives depict the experiences of illness in a holistic way, revealing the embodied, situated and intersubjective in other words, emer-gent nature of psychiatric disorders. They are thus able to create a different kind of understanding of mental disorders than medicalizing...
2016
J. .. Fritzman, Kristin Thornburg
We seek to constitute the extended mind’s fourth wave, socially distributed group cognition, and we do so by thinking with Hegel. The extended mind theory’s first wave invokes the parity principle, which maintains that processes that occur external to the organism’s skin should be considered mental if they are regarded as mental when they occur inside the organism. The second wave appeals to...
2016
N. Enaki, V. Koroli, S. Bazgan et al.
We study biologically ‘orchestrated’ coherent quantum processes in collections of protein microtubules of brain neurons, which correlate with, and regulate, neuronal synaptic and membrane activity. In this situation the continuous Schrodinger evolution of each such process terminates in accordance with the specific Diosi-Penrose (DP) scheme of ‘objective reduction’ (‘OR’) of the quantum state....
University Library Heidelberg
2016
Gregory Scott Sparrow, Ralph Carlson, Ryan Hurd
8 citations
A group of 18 experienced lucid dreamers responded to a 27-item online questionnaire pertaining to their use of the supplement galantamine for the purpose of inducing dreams. The questionnaire included 14 items that assessed the perceived differences on dimensions of dream phenomenology between lucid dreams immediately preceded by the ingestion of galantamine, and lucid dreams that were not....