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View article: Innovative Solutions for Insomnia: A Comparative Review of Virtual Reality Devices for Insomnia Management
Innovative Solutions for Insomnia: A Comparative Review of Virtual Reality Devices for Insomnia Management Open
The application of virtual reality (VR) has made its way into the healthcare field, however, its involvement in the management of insomnia has only recently started to be inves-tigated. With VR applications showing benefits in multiple are…
View article: Beyond awareness: the binding of reflexive mechanisms with the conscious mind: a perspective from default space theory
Beyond awareness: the binding of reflexive mechanisms with the conscious mind: a perspective from default space theory Open
How do reflexes operate so quickly with so much multimodal information on the environment? How might unconscious processes help reveal the nature of consciousness? The Default Space Theory of Consciousness (DST) offers a novel way to inter…
View article: Harnessing the Spatial Foundation of Mind in Breaking Vicious Cycles in Anxiety, Insomnia, and Depression: The Future of Virtual Reality Therapy Applications
Harnessing the Spatial Foundation of Mind in Breaking Vicious Cycles in Anxiety, Insomnia, and Depression: The Future of Virtual Reality Therapy Applications Open
Mental Illnesses, particularly anxiety, insomnia, and depression often involve vicious cycles which are self-perpetuating and can trap one into a more chronic state. For example in the case of insomnia, sympathetic overactivity, intrusive …
View article: Respiratory Rhythm, Autonomic Modulation, and the Spectrum of Emotions: The Future of Emotion Recognition and Modulation
Respiratory Rhythm, Autonomic Modulation, and the Spectrum of Emotions: The Future of Emotion Recognition and Modulation Open
Pulmonary ventilation and respiration are considered to be primarily involved in oxygenation of blood for oxygen delivery to cells throughout the body for metabolic purposes. Other pulmonary physiological observations, such as respiratory …
View article: A Cognitive and Emotional Self: A Dynamic Relationship between a Dual Self Embedded in the Autonomic Nervous System
A Cognitive and Emotional Self: A Dynamic Relationship between a Dual Self Embedded in the Autonomic Nervous System Open
The true nature of self has been considered one of the greatest mysteries since philosophical thought first arose. We assert that states of mind relating to the self are greatly influenced if not underlain by the autonomic nervous system. …
View article: The Therapeutic Role of Guided Mental Imagery in Treating Stress and Insomnia: A Neuropsychological Perspective
The Therapeutic Role of Guided Mental Imagery in Treating Stress and Insomnia: A Neuropsychological Perspective Open
Excessive distress and insomnia are much too common in the modern world and often lead to a myriad of detrimental effects including loss of cognitive ability and even physical ailments such as cancer. Current pharmaceutical treatments can …
View article: On the Hierarchical Organization of Oscillatory Assemblies: Layered Superimposition and a Global Bioelectric Framework
On the Hierarchical Organization of Oscillatory Assemblies: Layered Superimposition and a Global Bioelectric Framework Open
Bioelectric oscillations occur throughout the nervous system of nearly all animals, revealed to play an important role in various aspects of cognitive activity such as information processing and feature binding. Modern research into this d…
View article: Multimodal Integration and Phenomenal Spatiotemporal Binding: A Perspective From the Default Space Theory
Multimodal Integration and Phenomenal Spatiotemporal Binding: A Perspective From the Default Space Theory Open
How does the integrated and unified conscious experience arise from the vastly distributed activities of the nervous system? How is the information from the many cones of the retina bound with information coming from the cochlea to create …
View article: Self-Regulation of Breathing as an Adjunctive Treatment of Insomnia
Self-Regulation of Breathing as an Adjunctive Treatment of Insomnia Open
Sleep is a quiescent behavioral state during which complex homeostatic functions essential to health and well-being occur. Insomnia is a very common psychiatric disorder leading to a myriad of detrimental effects including loss of concentr…
View article: From Biological Rhythms to the Default Mode Network: What Lies beneath the Tip of the Iceberg of Mind?
From Biological Rhythms to the Default Mode Network: What Lies beneath the Tip of the Iceberg of Mind? Open
Our conscious day-to-day self is often described as the "tip of the iceberg" of a much greater cognitive system. The edge of the water divides the phenomenal self from the sub/unconscious underlying it. Similar to an iceberg, the unconscio…
View article: The Default Space Theory of Consciousness: Phenomenological Support from Personal Observations and Clinical Deficits
The Default Space Theory of Consciousness: Phenomenological Support from Personal Observations and Clinical Deficits Open
Consciousness is the unified, structured, subjective experience that we all share. The Default Space Theory has been proposed as a unified theory of consciousness that includes the brain and body in describing the infrastructure of conscio…
View article: Emerging Phenomenological and Biological Principles of Consciousness: Top Insights of Prevailing Models, Concepts, and Observations
Emerging Phenomenological and Biological Principles of Consciousness: Top Insights of Prevailing Models, Concepts, and Observations Open
We are all aware that our experience is structured into left and right, up and down, and we can understand from our own experience that consciousness is unified into a singular whole. Although we can understand such basic phenomenological …
View article: Top Mysteries of the Mind: Insights From the Default Space Model of Consciousness
Top Mysteries of the Mind: Insights From the Default Space Model of Consciousness Open
Aside from the nature of consciousness itself, there are still many unsolved problems in the neurosciences. Despite the vast and quickly growing body of work in this field, we still find ourselves perplexed at seemingly simple qualities of…
View article: Central Pain Syndrome: Etiological Perspectives from the 3D Default Space Model of Consciousness
Central Pain Syndrome: Etiological Perspectives from the 3D Default Space Model of Consciousness Open
In this article, the mechanisms of central pain syndrome (CPS) are examined for the purpose of gaining insight into how a unified conscious experience arises from brain and body interaction. We provide a novel etiology for CPS via implemen…
View article: Novel Bioelectric Mechanisms and Functional Significance of Peripheral and Central Entrainment by Respiration
Novel Bioelectric Mechanisms and Functional Significance of Peripheral and Central Entrainment by Respiration Open
The human organism is a complex biological system with emergent properties that arise from the unified functional interactions among its diverse components. When studying the brain and body in light of modern biological systems approaches,…
View article: Critique and Comparison of Prevailing Consciousness Models with a Novel Embodied Cognition Model
Critique and Comparison of Prevailing Consciousness Models with a Novel Embodied Cognition Model Open
In order to produce insight to the current state of consciousness research, we provide a review of some of the more preeminent models of consciousness via a comparison of these theories with a novel holistic model. The main goal of this re…
View article: Conceptual Advances in the Default Space Model of Consciousness
Conceptual Advances in the Default Space Model of Consciousness Open
The default space model is a unified theory of consciousness that posits the brain and body together form the foundation of conscious experience that exists as a three dimensional internally generated simulation of reality termed the 3D dy…