Eleven subjects were awakened from dream peiiods (defined in terms of Dement and Kleitman's eye-movement criteria) and asked to describe their dream experience. Subjects more often believed that they were awake and/or thinking when the awakening was gradual than when the awakening was abrupt (P < .05). Reports in which the subject believed that he had been awakened from a dreamless sleep were m...

In Eastern spiritual traditions, the biological mechanism of both individual enlightenment and evolution of the species toward higher consciousness is called kundalini, a potential force that once awakened can .produce a variety of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual effects. The ancient yogic texts described a life energy present in all living beings called prana. Kundalini was describe...

In mammals, oocytes within the primordial follicles require a number of essential factors tomaintain their survival. However, the survival factors for activated oocytes have been poorly characterized. Recently we reported that damaged DNA binding protein-1 (DDB1), the linker subunit of the cullin ring-finger ubiquitin E3 ligase-4 (CRL4) complex, and its substrate adaptor,DDB1-CUL4 associated fa...

1 How to test cognitive theory with fMRI. RUNNING HEAD: fMRI and Cognitive Theory 2 " If the mind happens in space at all, it happens somewhere north of the neck. What exactly turns on knowing how far north? " (Fodor 1999) " … to say that neuroimaging answers only the 'where' questions is to confuse the superficial format of raw neuroimaging data with the content of the questions those data can...

Many adolescents tend to leave their mobile phones turned on during night, accepting that they may be awakened by an incoming text message or call. Using self-reported and objective operator recorded mobile phone use data, we thus aimed to analyze how being awakened during night by mobile phone affects adolescents' perceived health and cognitive functions. In this cross-sectional study, 439 ado...

This paper is an attempt to articulate the ideological differences among the sciences when it comes to understanding the relationship between the mind and the body, and specifically the brain. These ideological differences hinder the advancement of psychosomatic research because of the exclusive nature of the claims about the mind and body. The research surrounding psychosomatic illnesses seems...

background : studies have emphasized on the frontal eeg  symmetry as a mediator of emotional states. this research was aimed to examine the overall and asymmetric activities of the brain lobes under the affective states. methods : a coupling eeg was recorded in an eye closed awakened condition from 40 right handed female students under the baseline and affective states. results : bilaterally de...