WELCOME to this double edition of Pacific Journalism Review, the second appear as an independent publication. Since we last appeared, a world already groaning under weight COVID and climate change has had endure added burden Russia’s murderous totally unjustified attack on Ukraine. Ukraine found allies all over world, not least from those concerned that Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who now ap...

So-called D-neuron (trace amine (TA) neuron) is the ligand neuron of trace amine-associated receptor, type 1 (TAAR1). Reduced stimulation of TAAR1 on dopamine (DA) neurons in the midbrain ventral tegmental area (VTA) has been revealed to increase firing frequency of VTA DA neurons. A Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)-required histochemical methods (K. Ikemoto) were used to specify subgroups of D-...

A crucial aspect for the cognitive neuroscience of pain is the interplay between pain perception and body awareness. Here we report a novel neuropsychological condition in which right brain-damaged patients displayed a selective monothematic delusion of body ownership. Specifically, when both their own and the co-experimenter's left arms were present, these patients claimed that the latter belo...

SOME DELUSIONS MAY arise as responses to unusual experiences (Davies et al. 2001; Maher 1974;). The implication is that delusion formation in some cases involves some kind of bottom-up mechanism—roughly, from perception to belief. Delusion formation may also involve some kind of top-down mechanism. This could be in the shape of a patient’s flawed background beliefs, or biases, which somehow mod...

Both creativity and schizotypy are suggested to be manifestations of the hyperactivation of unusual or remote concepts/words. However, the results of studies on creativity in schizophrenia are diverse, possibly due to the multifaceted aspects of creativity and difficulties of differentiating adaptive creativity from pathological schizotypy/positive symptoms. To date, there have been no detailed...