Bruce E. McDonough

TL;DR: These data confirm the sensitivity of ERPs to tobacco cues in smokers and suggest that the cue-reactivity of the N300 component is modulated by smoking deprivation, which may reflect an internally generated priming of the semantic network related to the smokers' need states.

TL;DR: Reduced bottom-up transfer of visual motion information from extrastriate cortex to perceptual systems in parietal association cortex may contribute to well-established pursuit tracking abnormalities, and perhaps to a wider array of alterations in perception and action planning in psychotic disorders.

TL;DR: Two previous studies in which ERPs elicited by target and nontarget stimuli were recorded from a selected subject, Malcolm Bessent, while he performed a forced-choice task were reported, and the ESPerciser, a computer-controlled psi testing system was modified to present targets and nontargets (decoys) sequentially instead of simultaneously, as in the original software.

TL;DR: EEG data were recorded under field conditions from 11 members of the Santo Daime Doctrine, a Brazilian shamanistic religion, before and after ingesting the psychoactive alkaloid preparation, ayahuasca, or daime, as they term it, to establish a thalamocortical model of the role of 40 Hz activity in brain function and conscious experience.