Cognition and volition: a melancholic condition

A Case of Melancholic Stupor (Psychocoma)

Review of Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context

Distributed Cognition and the Will is a very ambitious collection of 13 essays (plus the introduction) exploring different facets of the relation between an " old problem " (the will) and a relatively recent field of studies (distributed cognition theories). As Don Ross, one of the editors, points out in the very opening lines of the introduction, if there were a ranking of the major problems t...

Volition and Physical Laws

The term "known laws of physics" is meant to include any of the theoretical machinery used in unified field theory and string theory, even though these subjects are in an unfinished state. This theoretical machinery uses the same basic concepts-space, time, mass, interaction strength-as the present body of physics and does not make any assertions about consciousness. The concept of free will is...

Anhedonia in melancholic and non-melancholic depressive disorders.

BACKGROUND Anhedonia represents a core symptom of major depression and may be a potential marker for melancholia. However, current understanding of this construct in depressive sub-types is limited. METHOD Participants were recruited from the Black Dog Institute (Sydney) and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Diagnostic groups were derived on the basis of agreement between clinician and...

Volition and imagery in neurorehabilitation.

New interventional approaches have been proposed in the last few years to treat the motor deficits resulting from brain lesions. Training protocols represent the gold-standard of these approaches. However, the degree of motor recovery experienced by most patients remains incomplete. It would be important to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying functional recovery. This chapter...