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States of consciousness Prof. dr. Anton M.L. Coenen NICI – Department of Biological Psychology Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands a.coenen@nici.ru.nl. States of consciousness. Lecture 5. Altered states of consciousness. (After A. Bricolo, 1975).
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States of consciousness Prof. dr. Anton M.L. Coenen NICI – Department of Biological Psychology Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands a.coenen@nici.ru.nl
States of consciousness • Lecture 5. Altered states of consciousness
Cortical involvement in tonic-clonic seizures. Red represents increases in ictal compared to interictal cerebral blood flow. (Blumenfeld et al, 2003)
Normal ageing Dopamine (%) Damage Parkinson Age (years)
Narcolepsy: symptoms (Overeem et al., Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2001)
Dopamine release during attention and meditation (Kjaer et al, 2002)
During hypnosis an increase in activity in parts of the cingulate cortex (part of the ‘pain matrix’) is observed. (Faymonville et al, 2003)