Perhaps the biggest challenge facing neuroscience at the dawn of the 21st century is understanding the relationship between mind, consciousness and the brain. Editorials in recent years have highlighted the difficulties faced by cognitive neuroscience in attempting to answer questions regarding the nature, as well as the mechanism by which subjective experiences and our sense of consciousness m...

This study examined and compared the effects of consciousness-raisingwritten corrective feedback in 2 newly-developed levels in terms of marked thirdperson -s acquisition. Nine elementary level intact classes, including 191 malelanguage learners within the age range of 11-14 at Iran Language Institute, weretaken as the participants. Relying on the participants’ placement test results,previous t...

In pedagogic literature informed by critical disability studies, academia is widely cited as an ableist institution: the training ground for professions of normalcy. Music therapy could readily be complicit in this normalising discourse with its potential to pathologise participants and maintain a strict ‘normative divide’, between professionals it trains who engage provision. Activists, advoca...

Objectives: To investigate the psycho-physiological mechanisms of an Altered State of Consciousness (ASC) produced through systematic mental training by correlating the results of multiple computerised bioelectrographic measurements. Design: All subjects were tested using a set of modern computerized techniques comprising: digital electroencephalography; measurement of the low-frequency bi-late...

The escalating problem of sexual misconduct has heightened clinicians' awareness of the consequences of therapist-patient sexual relations. One consciousness-raising device, the definition of "therapist-patient sex syndrome," may pose more problems than remedies in the forensic, rather than clinical context. The author reviews the conceptual, diagnostic, and teleological dimensions of this addi...

The global impact of climate change remains a grave concern to every nation, from severe droughts in East Africa wildfires Australia and extreme floods landslides India, Nepal Bangladesh, and, recently, the devastating witnessed Nigeria, challenges continue escalate. Climate is driving people out their homes ushering world poverty. Extant literature avers that at centre mitigating adverse effec...