BMC Psychiatry
May 25, 2013
Petr Bob, Petra Selesova, Jiri Raboch et al.
Background: Somatoform dissociation is a specific form of dissociation with somatic manifestations represented in the form of 'pseudoneurological' symptoms due to disturbances or alterations of normal integrated functions of consciousness, memory or identity mainly related to trauma and other psychological stressors. With respect to the distinction between psychological and somatoform...
Neural Plasticity
May 22, 2013
Michael R. Hagerty, Julian Isaacs, Leigh Brasington et al.
We report the first neural recording during ecstatic meditations called jhanas and test whether a brain reward system plays a role in the joy reported. Jhanas are Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) that imply major brain changes based on subjective reports: (1) external awareness dims, (2) internal verbalizations fade, (3) the sense of personal boundaries is altered, (4) attention is highly...
Anesthesiology
May 22, 2013
UnCheol Lee, Seungwoo Ku, Gyu‐jeong Noh et al.
436 citations
INTRODUCTION: Directional connectivity from anterior to posterior brain regions (or "feedback" connectivity) has been shown to be inhibited by propofol and sevoflurane. In this study the authors tested the hypothesis that ketamine would also inhibit cortical feedback connectivity in frontoparietal networks. METHODS: Surgical patients (n = 30) were recruited for induction of anesthesia with...
Cureus
May 20, 2013
Jan Alexander Golembiewski
2 citations
Introduction: Different types of hallucinations are symptomatic of different conditions. Schizotypal hallucinations are unique in that they follow existing delusional narrative patterns: they are often bizarre, they are generally multimodal, and they are particularly vivid (the experience of a newsreader abusing you personally over the TV is both visual and aural. Patients who feel and hear...
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
May 8, 2013
Samarth Shukla, Sourya Acharya, Devendra Rajput
Understanding the true nature of an individual, be it a child or an adult, a male or a female, is almost an impossible task. The vast abyss like behaviour of a human mind is virtually unfathomable. Yet, with the advent of neurosciences, it can be said that we, as the medical fraternity, have been in a position to decipher a considerable part of the human mind. This review accepts the fact that...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
May 5, 2013
Anna Boncompagni
6 citations
This paper explores the enactive approach in cognitive science with an eye on the later Wittgenstein’s philosophy. The aim is not that of answering the question: was Wittgenstein an ante litteram enactivist? He was not, because he was not an ante litteram (cognitive) scientist of any kind. The aim, conversely, is that of answering the question: can enactivism be Wittgensteinian? In answering...
Revista de Filosofia Aurora
May 3, 2013
João Antonio De Moraes, Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar e discutir a sugestão de Fred Dretske (1995) para analisar o problema dos qualia. Tal problema, caro à Filosofia da Mente, ficou conhecido pela discussão desenvolvida por Thomas Nagel em seu clássico artigo What is it like to be a bat. Nesse artigo, Nagel (1974) postulou a impossibilidade de se conhecer, em perspectiva de terceira-pessoa, os aspectos da...
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
May 2013
Diana Bermudez, Michelle T Benjamin, Sarah E Porter et al.
This article presents the beginning mindfulness experiences of low income, minority women with a history of intimate partner violence. Ten women participated in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction group, three interviews and a focus group over 15 months. Using an interpretive phenomenological analysis approach, we derived the following themes: struggles to practice meditation; a vision of...
Neuropsychologia
May 2013
Florence Campana, Catherine Tallon-Baudry
Subjective experience often accompanies perception and cognition. This elusive feeling is difficult to characterize, both theoretically and experimentally. Perceptual subjective experience is at the heart of a theoretical debate in consciousness research: does it correspond to a genuine psychological and biological process independent from cognitive abilities, or is it a cognitive illusion, a...
Anthropology of Consciousness
May 1, 2013
Nathan Porath
AbstractAnthropologists working on altered states of consciousness (ASC) have suggested that we should do away with psychologizing concepts and use people's own terms for these experiences. With material drawn from the Orang Sakai of Sumatra this paper shows that practitioners who utilizeASCdo recognize the alteration of states of awareness as preconditions for numinous interactions. Also...