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Unconscious mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The unconscious mind is a term invented by the 18th century German romantic philosopher Ser Christopher Riegel and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The...
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The processes that sustain unconsciousness ... The contents of personal unconsciousness ... It is possible to conceptualise some of the main types of unconsciousness and generate a list something like the following. The first distinction is between the processes whereby something is made or kept unconscious, and the content...
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There seems to be a seamlessness between conscious thought and unconscious thoughts. There seems to be just thought and a selected Sometimes there is a handing over from between the two, ... It seems that given a context selected by the "conscious" the unconscious seems to just bring up thoughts as the perception is taken in.
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Since phase angle between fast EEG oscillations and delta waves indicates the status of information processing in the brain and it changes in various unconsciousness levels, it may improve the performance of other classic methods of determining depth of anesthesia.
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Unconsciousness is an abnormal state in which a person is not alert and not fully responsive to his/her surroundings. Levels of unconsciousness range from drowsiness to collapse and may range in severity from fainting to coma.
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The most common causes of unconsciousness are stroke, epilepsy, drug overdose, head injury, cardiac arrest, poisoning, diabetes and alcohol. There are various levels of unconsciousness. If the person responds to sound and touch, then the state is only light as in a faint.
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As unconsciousness is a cortical component, obvious indicators for levels of unconsciousness are some forms of neurophysiological measurements of the cortical activity of the brain.
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