Ruminating and Soul-Searching

Soul searching

It is perhaps surprising, given the contemporary eminence of neuroscience within biological research, that it was not appreciated until the 17th century that the brain might have an important function. A compelling new book by Carl Zimmer surveys the scientific, conceptual and political upheavals in England at this time as a backdrop to the major experimental work carried out by a little-known ...

Soul-searching in Communication Research

The terms of (mass) communication research and media studies are widely used to refer to an academic discipline, usually established in universities as a major or minor subject, a department or institute and sometimes even a school or college. It is implied that this young field is by now a discipline in its own right alongside such traditional disciplines as history, literature, sociology or p...

Ruminating on rumination.

H i H amilton et al. (1) reported some very interesting and important findings in their article “Default-Mode and TaskPositive Network Activity in Major Depressive Disorder: Implications for Adaptive and Maladaptive Rumination.” In the article, the authors explored dominance of the default-mode network (DMN) over the task-positive network (TPN) and how that dominance might be related to depress...

Ruminating on art and science.

Soul and Psyche

21s. 312 pp. This latest work by the author of "God and the Unconscious" aPpears as we go to press, so that its profound reflections were not Mailable to any of our contributors, including the Editor, whose Writing is already in proof. The book is in part an enquiry into the relationship of Psychiatry and religion. Fr. White starts by considering the main Question posed in our editorial?the rel...