The wonders of your brain - A special report. Parkinson's Disease: A personal story Local videographer Mark Lyon, 53, first lost his sense of smell, then over the course of ten years, other symptoms crept along, limiting his usually aggressive approach to water sport competition. It started with tremors, then a loss of balance, "almost a metabolic feeling of bonking, like a marathoner at mile 20," he described it. "In a year, I went from competing in paddleboard races to fighting for balance and limping along at half speed. And still I persisted in denial, until my great friend and training partner Ron gave me the push I needed to see my doctor. " The doctor sent him for a consult a neurologist, Irene Litvan in the movement disorders program at UCSD.
View Gallery. Mind Hacks. Psychology - Research Blogging. Neurophilosophy. Ten Common Fallacies Everyone Should Know. Psychological Tests and Quizzes. JCS, Journal of Consciousness Studies. Critical Reviews The complete text from which these are extracted is available. See also Editorial: The Future of Consciousness Studies Over the last few years, research into consciousness has at last become accepted within the academic community. As John Searle puts it, raising the subject of consciousness in cognitive science discussions is no longer considered to be ``bad taste'', causing graduate students to ``roll their eyes at the ceiling and assume expressions of mild disgust.'' But why are we interested in consciousness?
Most people are interested not just because of the academic and interdisciplinary challenges, but because of their personal experience - we have consciousness, we experience it; perhaps we even think that we ``are'' it. But, if we are to make progress in studying consciousness, we will have to think about it very clearly, and engage in serious constructive dialogues between a variety of viewpoints. The Journal of Consciousness Studies covers this broad field by:
Journal of Scientific Exploration.