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States of consciousness Prof. dr. Anton M.L. Coenen NICI – Department of Biological Psychology Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands [email protected]. States of consciousness. Lecture 5. Altered states of consciousness. (After A. Bricolo, 1975). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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States of consciousness
Prof. dr. Anton M.L. Coenen
NICI – Department of Biological Psychology
Radboud University Nijmegen
The Netherlands
States of consciousness
• Lecture 5. Altered states of consciousness
(After A. Bricolo, 1975)
Cortical involvement in tonic-clonic seizures. Red represents increases in ictal compared to interictal cerebral blood flow.
(Blumenfeld et al, 2003)
Korsakoff
Delirium
Normal ageing
Damage
Parkinson
Age (years)
Dop
amin
e (%
)
NARCOLEPSY
Narcolepsy: symptoms
(Overeem et al., Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2001)
LUCID DREAMING
DAY-DREAM
CONCENTRATION
MEDITATION
Dopamine release during attention and meditation (Kjaer et al, 2002)
HYPNOSIS
HYPNOSIS
During hypnosis an increase in activity in parts of the cingulate cortex (part of the ‘pain matrix’) is observed. (Faymonville et al, 2003)
• Coma is a low vigilant state caused by damage or affections of the midbrain reticular formation or by large parts of the cortex.
• In dementia (Alzheimer, multi-infarct dementia, Korsakoff syndrome) and delirium, disorientation in space and time can occur, together with hallucinations, confusions and a lowered state of consciousness.
• In narcolepsy and lucid dreaming, dream hallucinations occur. In lucid dreaming, the dreamer is ‘aware’ of his dream. In narcolepsy (REM sleep during waking), a frightening mixed perception of internal and external stimuli occur.
• Meditation is a technique to calm down the brain (relaxation) and to bring it in a trance-like state in which insight arises in mind, self and world. Hypnosis is a trance-like state with focused attention, in which people are sensitive for suggestions. Even feelings of pain can be reduced in the hypnotic state.
