Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
June 25, 2013
Dagna Skrzypińska, Barbara Szmigielska
12 citations
Aim. The aim of this theoretical study is to present common phenomenological and neurobiological features of schizophrenia and REM sleep. Results. A review of professional literature was conducted in order to synthesize current findings about associations between schizophrenia and REM sleep. Many researches reveal that both states share some common phenomenological and neurobiological features....
Frontiers in Psychology
June 25, 2013
Isabella Pasqualini, J. Llobera, Olaf Blanke
Over the centuries architectural theory evolved several notions of embodiment, proposing in the nineteenth and twentieth century that architectonic experience is related to physiological responses of the observer. Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience of embodiment (or bodily self-consciousness) enable empirical studies of architectonic embodiment. Here, we investigated how architecture...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
June 19, 2013
Anne Diamond
“This book is about the psychedelic potential of dreams” (p. 30). J. Allan Hobson uses his own brain and its dreams to provide a “unified theory of consciousness” that ties dreaming, dissociative s...
Journal of Neuroscience
June 19, 2013
Michael Kometer, André Schmidt, Lutz Jäncke et al.
357 citations
Visual illusions and hallucinations are hallmarks of serotonergic hallucinogen-induced altered states of consciousness. Although the serotonergic hallucinogen psilocybin activates multiple serotonin (5-HT) receptors, recent evidence suggests that activation of 5-HT2A receptors may lead to the formation of visual hallucinations by increasing cortical excitability and altering visual-evoked...
June 17, 2013
L. Bailey, J. Yates
The Near Death Experience: A Reader is the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations ever assembled. This book encompasses a broad range of disciplines: psychological researchers discuss cognitive models and Jungian theories of meaningful archetypal phenomena; the biological perspectivedescribes how brains near death may produce soothing endorphins, optical illusions, and...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
June 14, 2013
Camila Valenzuela-Moguillansky, J. K. O 'Regan, Claire Petitmengin et al.
Despite the fact that the rubber hand illusion (RHI) is an experimental paradigm that has been widely used in the last 14 years to investigate different aspects of the sense of bodily self, very few studies have sought to investigate the subjective nature of the experience that the RHI evokes. The present study investigates the phenomenology of the RHI through a specific elicitation method....
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
June 10, 2013
George A. Mashour, Michael Alkire
148 citations
Are animals conscious? If so, when did consciousness evolve? We address these long-standing and essential questions using a modern neuroscientific approach that draws on diverse fields such as consciousness studies, evolutionary neurobiology, animal psychology, and anesthesiology. We propose that the stepwise emergence from general anesthesia can serve as a reproducible model to study the...
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
June 1, 2013
Edo Shonin, William van Gordon, Mark D Griffiths
Purpose In the last five years, scientific interest into the potential applications of Buddhist-derived interventions (BDIs) for the treatment of problem gambling has been growing. This paper reviews current directions, proposes conceptual applications, and discusses integration issues relating to the utilisation of BDIs as problem gambling treatments. Method Aliterature search and evaluation...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
June 1, 2013
Surbhi Khanna, Jeffrey M Greeson
250 citations
This paper reviews the philosophical origins, current scientific evidence, and clinical promise of yoga and mindfulness as complementary therapies for addiction. Historically, there are eight elements of yoga that, together, comprise ethical principles and practices for living a meaningful, purposeful, moral and self-disciplined life. Traditional yoga practices, including postures and...
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
May 27, 2013
This paper addresses three issues. In the first part the relation between consciousness and time is being discussed as it developed in the history of philosophy and theology. It covers Plato, Plotinus and St. Augustine. It continues in the second part to describe that time it is being perceived in the mystical consciousness as eternity which means in this context timelessness. Examples from...