Can literary studies contribute to cognitive neuroscience?

Neuroscience Can Contribute to Pastoral Care and Counseling

The neuroscience literature supports the idea that spiritual transformation is a powerful behavioral and cognitive change process involving fundamental alterations in the sense of self. Brain regions that are known to mediate the sense of self are activated during religious experiences that in turn underwrite spiritual transformation. Because religious experiences are fundamental to spiritual t...

To err is human...: can the methods of cognitive neuroscience contribute to our understanding of errors in anaesthesia?

decreases biochemical markers for myocardial and renal dysfunction in coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a double-blinded, placebocontrolled, multicenter study. Anesthesiology 2003; 98: 1315–27 29 Xu JH, Zhang TZ, Peng XF, Jin CJ, Zhou J, Zhang YN. Effects of sevoflurane before cardiopulmonary bypass on cerebral oxygen balance and early postoperative cognitive dysfunction. Neurol Sci 2013; 3...

Case studies continue to illuminate the cognitive neuroscience of memory.

The current ubiquity of functional neuroimaging studies, and the importance they have had in elucidating brain function, obscures the fact that much of what we know about brain-behavior relationships derives largely from the study of single- and multiple-patient cases. A major goal of the present review is to describe how single cases continue to uniquely and critically contribute to cognitive ...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...