Mind, state

Will At the 1997 Mind States conference, Tere had tliis to say about Salvia divinorum. "I don t 1 establishment is interested in demonizing and ci new, easily grown, widely available psychoactb don t think the establishment needs a new Canm agree with this statement ... 

The dynamic interaction of perception, emotion, and cognition in the creation of conscious experience is highlighted by the visual image transformations that are enhanced by natural and drug-induced alterations of brain-mind state. Later in the book we will read the detailed accounts of such transformations in the reports by careful self-observers such as Albert Hofmann (who discovered the psychotogcnic potential of LSD) and Heinrich Kliiver (who used mescaline to study visual hallucination). In Hofmann and Kliiver s work, the most valuable descriptions are formal. That is, they emphasize form rather than content. 

When we assemble the three dimensions. A, I, and M, as the bounds of a cubic space (figure 2.6), we can represent and visualize the continuous fluctuations of normal brain-mind state as a dancing dot whose each successive position is determined by the current value of the three measures... 

The main point of this discussion is that clinical pharmacology as we practice it today is much less spatially precise than the basic science neuropharmacology that informs our model building in the brain-mind state paradigm. This means both that we have a long way to go before we achieve a perfect fit between our mechanistic hypotheses and our clinical observations, and that clinical experiments are not always good ways to test basic science theories. 

Atypical and Typical Antipsychotics in the Light of the Brain-Mind State Concept... 

This link of central state to peripheral outflow unifies Hans Selye s concept of stress to Cannon s fight or flight paradigm and places both in a model that specifies, to a first approximation, the way that brain-mind state control systems can coordinate the complex array of processes that are involved. The twin beneficiaries of our model and the interventions illuminated by it are nothing less than mental and bodily health. 

What chemical control is there of the brain-mind states ... 

The uniform correlation of brain-states with mind-states is a law of nature. ... 

A skeptical mind state is nothing new to human nature. Dating as far back as Socrates people were often cynical about things they saw and heard, leading to some scholars conclusions at times being questioned. 

Burnell Wilson spent her twilight years in a Chicago nursing-home she passed away in 1996. Onshell, the youngest sister, does not wish to talk about the painful memories of sixty years ago. Felton, now in frail health but of sound mind, states that he was too young to remember much of what happened. It was just like a dream. ... 

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