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...

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...

The term consciousness is an important one in the vernacular of the western literature in many fields. It is no wonder that scientists have assumed that consciousness will be found as a component of the human brain and that we will come to understand its neural basis. However, there is rather little in common between consciousness as the neurologist would use it to diagnose the vegetative state...