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Conscious Sedation with Nitrous Oxide - A Technique with a Potential as Wide as General Anesthesia Itself.

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013
Though conscious sedation is an established technique for alleviating pain and anxiety in dentistry; it has been underutilized by other medical and surgical specialties.
Manish Naithani
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Narrative Realities and Optimal Entropy [PDF]

, 2017
This talk will focus on cognitive processes between conscious and subconscious awareness in order to present a slightly different definition of narrative.
Jones, Derek
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Inner engineering is associated with perceived improvements in relationship quality, interpersonal connections, and interpersonal compassion

Frontiers in Psychology
ObjectivesInterpersonal relationships are a cornerstone of wellbeing. Mindfulness-based practices have been shown to improve relationship quality and reduce perceived stress. Inner Engineering (IE) is a transformative program that includes meditative and
Nashaw Jafari, Atina Manvelian, Enas Mohamed, Akila Rayapuraju, Hibiki Orui, Sultan Alkuhaimi, Preeti Upadhyay Reed, Balachundhar Subramaniam   +7 more
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Improved costs and outcomes with conscious sedation vs general anesthesia in TAVR patients: Time to wake up? [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundTranscatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become a commonplace procedure for the treatment of aortic stenosis in higher risk surgical patients.
Aksoy, Olcay, Benharash, Peyman, Fernandez, Josue, Johansen, Daniel, Kwon, Murray, Patel, Komal D, Sareh, Sohail, Satou, Nancy, Shemin, Richard J, Suh, William, Toppen, William   +10 more
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Scoping review on shamanistic trances practices

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
Background Shamanism is a spiritual tradition in which trance practitioners deliberately modify their state of consciousness to seemingly interact with an invisible world to resolve their community members’ problems.
Nolwenn Marie, Yannick Lafon, Aminata Bicego, Charlotte Grégoire, Floriane Rousseaux, Antoine Bioy, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Olivia Gosseries   +7 more
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Learning to Be Conscious [PDF]

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020
Consciousness remains a formidable challenge. Different theories of consciousness have proposed vastly different mechanisms to account for phenomenal experience. Here, appealing to aspects of global workspace theory, higher-order theories, social theories, and predictive processing, we introduce a novel framework: the self-organizing ...
Cleeremans, Axel, Achoui, Dalila, Beauny, Arnaud, Keuninckx, Lars, Martin, Jean-Rémy, Muñoz Moldes, Santiago, Vuillaume, Laurène, De Heering, Adélaïde   +7 more
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Diversity and complexity in neural organoids

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neural organoid research aims to expand genetic diversity on one side and increase tissue complexity on the other. Chimeroids integrate multiple donor genomes within single organoids. Self‐organising multi‐identity organoids, exogenous cell seeding, or enforced assembly of region‐specific organoids contribute to tissue complexity.
Ilaria Chiaradia, Madeline A. Lancaster
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Introducing Noise Can Lift Sub-Threshold Signals Above the Threshold to Generate Perception: A New Perspective on Consciousness

Applied Sciences
The pursuit of a comprehensive understanding of human consciousness, which includes the subjective experience of perception, is a long-standing endeavor.
Peter Walla
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How conscious experience and working memory interact [PDF]

, 2003
Active components of classical working memory are conscious, but traditional theory does not account for this fact. Global Workspace theory suggests that consciousness is needed to recruit unconscious specialized networks that carry out detailed working ...
Baars, Bernard J, Franklin, Stan
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Association of Corticospinal Tract Asymmetry With Ambulatory Ability After Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ambulatory ability after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is important to patients. We tested whether asymmetry between ipsi‐ and contra‐lesional corticospinal tracts (CSTs) assessed by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is associated with post‐ICH ambulation.
Yasmin N. Aziz, Carl D. Langefeld, Mary E. Comeau, Miranda C. Marion, Tyler P. Behymer, Lee A. Gilkerson, Padmini Sekar, Weihong Yuan, Vivek Khandwala, Brady J. Williamson, Thomas Maloney, Achala Vagal, Pierce Boyne, Kari Dunning, Matthew L. Flaherty, Steven J. Kittner, Prachi Mehndiratta, Gunjan Y. Parikh, Michael L. James, David Roh, Fernando D. Testai, Farhaan S. Vahidy, James Thornton, Ranjit Bagga, Daniel Woo, Stacie L. Demel   +25 more
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