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Hawking: Aliens may pose risks to Earth - Space- msnbc.com - 2 views

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  • "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,"
  • The 68-year-old scientist said a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth might well be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
  • Hawking said an attack by interstellar predators is just one of the dismaying possibilities in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Another possibility is that intelligence itself might be inimical to life. Hawking pointed out that humanity has put itself on the edge of its own destruction by creating nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction.
Eva Angelini

A companion during recovery: sober companions can help clients transitioning to and fro... - 3 views

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  • The standard 28-day primary treatment program is sufficient for clients entering the recovery process; however, research shows statistically higher success rates for clients who spend additional time in a structured step-down program, such as an extended-care residential facility or 3/4- or 1/2-way transitional house
  • Many clients who have shown positive progress and a sincere desire to remain clean and sober while in treatment have relapsed on the trip home or during the first few days out of treatment.
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      Eva Angelini on 15 Apr 10
       
      The changes a person may experience during treatment might be deeply personal and intense. Considering most treatment settings are probably based in relaxing, safe surroundings, it is not a surprise to me that someone would find themselves struggling as early as the flight back home. I think this is probably common due to the nature of the raw realities a person might face upon leaving treatment in recovery. Lifestyle changes can be pivotal & positive experiences, although, I'm sure they can also be challenging, and quickly regressive if a solid transitional plan is not intact and followed.
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EBSCOhost: Sleep paralysis-associated sensed presence as a possible manifestation of s... - 1 views

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      Eva Angelini on 24 Apr 10
       
      Sleep Paralysis vs. Anxiety Disorders
  • Sleep paralysis and hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations (HHs) are components of the narcoleptic tetrad of symptoms, together with excessive daytime sleepiness and attacks of cataplexy
  • Sleep paralysis manifests as an inability to speak or to move the trunk, limbs, and/or facial muscles while remaining aware of one's surroundings.
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  • The phenomenon arises just prior to falling asleep or on awakening (ASDA, 1990; Takeuchi, Fukuda, Sasaki, Inugami, & Murphy, 2002) and is often accompanied by hypnagogic (sleep-onset) or hypnopompic (sleep-offset) hallucinations. Sleep paralysis can also affect individuals without excessive daytime sleepiness or cataplexy—that is, without a diagnosis of narcolepsy—and is referred to in those cases as isolated sleep paralysis (ISP; ASDA, 1990; Fukuda, 1994; Hishikawa & Shimizu, 1995; Takeuchi, Miyasita, Sasaki, Inugami, & Fukuda, 1992)
  • HHs to be vivid auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic images most often associated with fear, terror, or dread.
  • PRES occurring with ISP tends to be associated with fear as well as with visual and, less often, auditory hallucinations; together, these components constitute a particular type of HH referred to as the “intruder” (Cheyne, 2001; Cheyne, Rueffer, & Newby-Clark, 1999).
  • The hallucinated presence, in turn, triggers intense fear, which leads to a brief search for signs of danger to corroborate the feeling of presence.
  • Apart from some work assessing panic disorder among African American samples, few studies have systematically investigated possible links between anxiety and ISP (with associated HHs).
  • An early study by Bell et al. (1986) revealed that 15.5% of subjects with ISP also had panic disorder. However, only 25 subjects participated in this study, and no controls were assessed.
  • Another study revealed that 7 out of 18 African Americans diagnosed with panic disorder and hypertension also had ISP (Neal, Rich, & Smucker, 1994). Unfortunately, the prevalence of ISP among hypertensives without panic disorder was not assessed.
  • The fact that PRES is the most prevalent form of HH and is frequently associated with fear is consistent with the possibility that the individual experiencing it may be frightened by the presence of others in a more general sense. In this respect, ISP with PRES shares many commonalities with social anxiety, which is a marked and persistent fear of social situations involving unfamiliar people or scrutiny by others
  • Third, evidence from neurobiology supports a hypothesized link between the HHs accompanying ISP and social anxiety. A recent study using the positron emission tomography technique found an overactivation of the amygdala among socially anxious subjects while they spoke in public (Tillfors et al., 2001). Consistent with this, it has been proposed that intruder hallucinations might be associated with increased activity in the amygdala (Cheyne, 2001; Cheyne, Rueffer, & Newby-Clark, 1999).
  • Fear, visual imagery, and PRES might constitute a constellation of cognitive-emotional processes also common to socially anxious individuals.
  • “the presence is watching or monitoring the subject.”
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