What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body Problem

What Has Functional Neuroimaging Told Us about the Mind ? So Many Examples , So Little

Neuroimaging of schizophrenia: what it reveals about the disease and what it tells us about a patient.

Neuroimaging in psychiatry, and in schizophrenia in particular, moves ahead at a rapid pace delivering new insights into the nature of the illness and its intriguing symptoms via technologies such as MRI, fMRI, PET, and SPET scanning. How do these impact on understanding the patient in front of us? What do they mean for the busy clinician in clinic? We outline some of the recent findings in neu...

From Scanner to Sound Bite: Issues in Interpreting and Reporting Sex Differences in the Brain

Neuroimaging research is yielding reports of sex differences in the brain. Yet the likelihood of spurious findings of sex differences, the teething problems of new technology, the obscurity of the relation between brain structure and psychological function, and difficulties inferring mental states from neuroimaging data all require us to be considerably cautious in interpreting such results. Un...

Representation of Tehran during Qajar reign (Naseri period) in French travelers’ travel journals

Travel journals from different historical periods contain valuable insights that could be analyzed from different aspects and through that we can understand other people’s points of view about us. Description of different cities in travel literature represents French travelers’ views about these cities besides informing us about the quality and quantity of those cities at the times. “Represen...

Restructuring consciousness –the psychedelic state in light of integrated information theory

The psychological state elicited by the classic psychedelics drugs, such as LSD and psilocybin, is one of the most fascinating and yet least understood states of consciousness. However, with the advent of modern functional neuroimaging techniques, the effect of these drugs on neural activity is now being revealed, although many of the varied phenomenological features of the psychedelic state re...