Opinion: The term “vegetative state” writes off patients as “not even minimally conscious” when medicine is not in a position ...

It involves three steps: electroencephalograms (EEGs), sound generators and "therapy clowns." First, the clowns try to ...

Just about everyone seems to have a potent opinion about altered states of consciousness (ASC). Some people say that when they do yoga, for example, and truly get into it, they reach an altered ...

Many theories attempt to explain consciousness, but one that’s gaining traction is the idea of electromagnetic (EM) ...

The editors at Communications Psychology invite research manuscripts investigating states of consciousness, as for example induced by psychoactive substances, hypnosis, meditation, or arising as a ...

“Conversely, a riveting conjecture exists that dreams might also function as conduits to alternative dimensions or elevated states of consciousness, suggesting a more profound and expansive role than ...

A young man named Stephen finds the lines between reality and nightmare inexplicably blurred when his doctor forces him to take an experimental new medication to treat a misdiagnosed psychological ...

“There is ‘something it is like’ for an organism to be conscious, and what it is like to be in one state of consciousness differs from what it is like to be in another state of consciousness.” ...