Hearing Things Research Articles

Traditional health practitioners' understanding of spirit possession in Gauteng province, South Africa.

Traditional health practitioners (THPs) understand spirit possession as a cultural or religious spirit occupying a person, while the mental healthcare providers understand it as a mental illness. The different understanding is based on manifestations that mimic that of mental illness, such as seeing and hearing things that others cannot see or hear. Spirit possession holds different meanings in different cultures and religions that could be either beneficial or detrimental. Furthermore, spirit possession is understood as a channel of communication between the living and the dead or God or a supernatural phenomenon in which a spirit owns a person. This study explored and interpreted THPs' understanding of spirit possession in Gauteng province, South Africa. Hermeneutic phenomenology study explored and interpreted the THPs' understanding of spirit possession in Gauteng province. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with 12 THPs who were selected through snowball sampling techniques. Data analysis followed Heidegger's and Gadamer's philosophies and Van Manen's six steps of the analytic approach. The findings revealed that THPs understood spirit possession as spiritual illness, ancestral calling and demonic spirit or witchcraft. Traditional health practitioners' understanding of spirit possession could promote mental health and prevent mental illness by providing support to a spirit-possessed person and referral to mental healthcare services. This study contributed that not all manifestations presented by persons with spirit possession are actual and clear-cut mental illness, but could be unwritten cultural and/ or religious illnesses that needs cultural and religious services also.

The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography, by Mark Evan Bonds

<i>The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography</i>, by Mark Evan Bonds

Ageism Takes Toll on Physical, Mental Health

Ageism Takes Toll on Physical, Mental Health

Risk Factors Associated With Increased Anxiety Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents in Northwest China During COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown.

PurposeA large body of evidence has revealed that the sudden outbreak of public health emergencies induces dramatic effects on the mental health of the general public. We aimed to investigate the level of anxiety sensitivity and its risk factors in children and adolescents from northwest China during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in early 2020.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted through the Wenjuanxing platform using a convenience sampling method between 18 and 26 February 2020. The self-designed questionnaire contained sociodemographic characteristics, factors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) scale. The data from 1,091 valid questionnaires from students aged 9–17 years were analyzed using ANOVA, multiple linear regression, and binary logistic regression.ResultsThe average CASI scores were 11.47 ± 6.631, and 642 students (58.9%) had prominent anxiety sensitivity. Gender, education level, family members participating in anti-COVID-19 work, getting ill and needing medical help during the lockdown, feeling afraid or having heart palpitations on hearing things associated with COVID-19, believing that COVID-19 would have adverse impacts on themselves or their family in the future, and fear of infection were identified as significant factors for elevated levels of anxiety sensitivity (p < 0.05). We established a multiple linear regression model for the anxiety sensitivity score. Risk factors found for anxiety sensitivity in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 lockdown included studying in secondary or high school, becoming ill during the pandemic, feeling afraid or experiencing rapid heartbeat or palpitations on hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic, thinking that COVID-19 would have an adverse impact on themselves or their family in the future, and fear of infection.ConclusionsDuring the COVID-19 pandemic and home quarantine, scores measuring the prevalence of anxiety sensitivity in children and adolescents from northwest China were elevated. We should develop measures that especially target possible risk factors to intervene against and prevent anxiety sensitivity in children and adolescents in both the current and future pandemics.

Physical Therapy Intervention with Adult Patients in an Intensive Care Unit

Some events that prove something hints that higher doses of getting something ready for action could have benefits on functional status. However, the effect of increasing the availability of Physical Therapist in the intensive care unit to provide critical care for these conditions is unclear. Early getting something ready for action of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) is related to positive health benefits. Research books don’t have understanding of the current status of ICU physical therapy (PT) practice in the different area of the world. Aim to figure out the current standard of ICU PT practice, point of view, and things that block or stop other things. Critical care is full of possible upsetting things. Common upsetting things include pain, sleeplessness, mechanical machines that bring fresh air, tubes in the nose and mouth, genitourinary thin flexible tube inserted into the body, noise, seeing or hearing things that aren't there, discomfort due to medical procedures, thoughts of death, and doubt. Left untreated, not enough drug-induced calmness or sleep can lead to unplanned exudation, lung-related and heart-related difficulties, increased time on mechanical machines that bring fresh air and lengthy ICU stay.

13Poetics

Abstract This review is divided into three sections. The first, ‘Poet-Critics and Criticizing Poets’, considers the accounts of poetry traced in Robert Hass’s A Little Book on Form: An Exploration of the Formal Imagination of Poetry and Don Paterson’s The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre. The second section, ‘(Dis)embodied Sound’, examines the different ways that Peter Robinson and Angela Leighton (themselves both prominent critics and poets) approach sound in poetry in The Sound-Sense of Poetry and Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature, while the third section, ‘Hybrids and Remnants’, explores the eccentric, hybrid forms of prose poetry and ecopoetics, as described in Jane Monson’s essay collection British Prose Poetry: The Poems Without Lines and Margaret Ronda’s monograph Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End.

Leighton, Angela. Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature

Journal Article Leighton, Angela. Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature Get access Angela Leighton. Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 304 pp. £25.95 / $35.00 / €31.50. ISBN 978–0–674–98349–6. Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2019, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqy077 Published: 15 April 2019

Longitudinal investigation of DNA methylation changes preceding adolescent psychotic experiences

Childhood psychotic experiences (PEs), such as seeing or hearing things that others do not, or extreme paranoia, are relatively common with around 1 in 20 children reporting them at age 12. Childhood PEs are often distressing and can be predictive of schizophrenia, other psychiatric disorders, and suicide attempts in adulthood, particularly if they persist during adolescence. Previous research has demonstrated that methylomic signatures in blood could be potential biomarkers of psychotic phenomena. This study explores the association between DNA methylation (DNAm) and the emergence, persistence, and remission of PEs in childhood and adolescence. DNAm profiles were obtained from the ALSPAC cohort at birth, age 7, and age 15/17 (n = 901). PEs were assessed through interviews with participants at ages 12 and 18. We identified PE-associated probes (p < 5 × 10−5) and regions (corrected p < 0.05) at ages 12 and 18. Several of the differentially methylated probes were also associated with the continuity of PEs across adolescence. One probe (cg16459265), detected consistently at multiple timepoints in the study sample, was replicated in an independent sample of twins (n = 1658). Six regions, including those spanning the HLA-DBP2 and GDF7 genes, were consistently differentially methylated at ages 7 and 15–17. Findings from this large, population-based study suggest that DNAm at multiple stages of development may be associated with PEs in late childhood and adolescence, though further replication is required. Research uncovering biomarkers associated with pre-clinical PEs is important as it has the potential to facilitate early identification of individuals at increased risk who could benefit from preventive interventions.

Hearing and ReadingHearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature. By Angela Leighton

Hearing and Reading<i>Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature</i>. By <scp>Angela Leighton</scp>

Natural Products: An Important Source for the Treatment of Psychosis

Psychosis is a mental disorders or psychiatric disorders due abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties telling what is real and what is not [1]. It is a wide range of condition that affects mood, behaviour and thinking. Psychosis is characterized by hallucination in vision, hearing, smelling and tasting etc. The person suffered from psychiatric disorders may include symptoms of false beliefs and seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear [1]. Other symptoms may include disorganized thinking, incoherent speech and behaviour that are inappropriate for the situation [2]. There may also be, sleep problems, loss of motivation and social withdrawal, and difficulties carrying out daily activities [2]. The person experiencing psychosis may also have thoughts that are contrary to actual evidence; these thoughts are known as delusions. Psychosis is associated with several medical disorders and conditions like schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, and schizoaffective disorder: delusional disorder, substance-induced psychosis, dementia and bipolar disorder (manic depression) Figure 1[2,3].

2.4 On the Value of Listening to Those Who Hear Things

2.4 On the Value of Listening to Those Who Hear Things

Calming a Parent's Vaccine Fears

P.A. Offit - Head of Infectious Diseases at the Children 's Hospital of Philadelphia, leading advocate and has done more for promoting vaccination than anybody else I know in the world. He has been a staunch advocate of helping kids receive necessary vaccines and has been a pioneer himself in vaccine research. In an interview, Dr. Offit explain what can be done to calm parents who are worried and hear such things as, «My child got sick after a vaccination»?

Trains, transformers, and tinnitus: Case studies in hard-to-detect sounds

It’s a phone call many acoustical consultants dread: someone driven crazy by an annoying sound. Sometimes, the source is unknown. Sometimes it’s a nearby industry or antagonistic neighbor. Some sounds are intermittent; some are steady. Some are high frequency; others are low and are described as vibration. Most consultants are greatly relieved if they can hear and measure the sound themselves. But the source can still be elusive, especially if the sound is very faint and if there are multiple potential sources. More often than not, the consultant can hear and measure nothing, which gets blamed on his poor hearing and shoddy equipment. A discussion of tinnitus is often received as an accusation of “hearing things.” But is tinnitus (or a similar condition) the only possible explanation? Why is the sound heard only at home? What triggered the person to start hearing it? The person may be especially sensitive, but to what? What advice is useful? The authors will present several case histories where community sounds were ultimately identified. For those sounds not identified, the author will discuss a number of possible explanations along with recommendations for the consultant and the person hearing the sound.

Why implicit attitudes are (probably) not beliefs

Should we understand implicit attitudes on the model of belief? I argue that implicit attitudes are (probably) members of a different psychological kind altogether, because they seem to be insensitive to the logical form of an agent’s thoughts and perceptions. A state is sensitive to logical form only if it is sensitive to the logical constituents of the content of other states (e.g., operators like negation and conditional). I explain sensitivity to logical form and argue that it is a necessary condition for belief. I appeal to two areas of research that seem to show that implicit attitudes fail spectacularly to satisfy this condition—although persistent gaps in the empirical literature leave matters inconclusive. I sketch an alternative account, according to which implicit attitudes are sensitive merely to spatiotemporal relations in thought and perception, i.e., the spatial and temporal orders in which people think, see, or hear things.

D3 as a Possible Marker Based on D1-D4 Dopamine Receptors Expression in Paranoid Schizophrenia Patients

Paranoid schizophrenia is one of several types of schizophrenia, a chronic mental illness in which a person loses touch with reality. The classic features of paranoid schizophrenia are having delusions and hearing things that aren’t real. Based on Numerous studies about dopamine and schizophrenia, it suggested that changes in the dopamine systems are in related with schizophrenia, but still there is no clear direct evidence for dopamine hypothesis in schizophrenia. In terminated examination, 20 paranoid schizophrenia patients mRNA from white blood cells extracted, then cDNA were synthesized. After Quantitive Real-time PCR examination with the related primaries for D1-D4 receptors were terminated and the compared consequences in abundance of genes expression with the normal samples reveal that D1-D4 dopamine receptors were expressed in all samples. Abundance of normal individuals were D1 100%, D2 6.6%, D3 40%, D4 86.6% and for patients were D1 100%, D2 26.6%, D3 33.3%, D4 73.3%. The results of this study reveals significant differences between D3 receptor apply to others. Therefore D3 has a possible clinical significance for using as rapid diagnosis of people who suspicious of paranoid schizophrenia.

The Reluctant Metaphysicians

Research Article| January 01 2014 The Reluctant Metaphysicians Catherine L. Albanese. A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.John L. Brooke. The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.D. Michael Quinn. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987, 1998.Leigh Eric Schmidt. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.Randall Styers. Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Samuel M. Brown Samuel M. Brown Samuel M. Brown (MD, Harvard Medical School) is assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care and medical ethics and humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Intermountain Medical Center. He is the author of In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death (Oxford, 2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mormon Studies Review (2014) 1: 115–131. https://doi.org/10.5406/mormstudrevi.1.2014.0115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Samuel M. Brown; The Reluctant Metaphysicians. Mormon Studies Review 1 January 2014; 1 115–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/mormstudrevi.1.2014.0115 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressMormon Studies Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2014 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Hearing things in music for films: music, fiction and engagement

Film music is often thought of as something that adds to the visuals. Yet, this truism somehow obscures the complexity of how film music works. First, music has no single and fixed meaning that can be added to the visuals in the first place. Second, experiencing audiovisual meaning can be accounted for on several levels. For that reason this article proposes eight different but complementary ways of listening to music along the lines of ecological theories of musical perception in which it is argued that we hear things, that is, referential matters in music. The validity of this is demonstrated through the discussion of a series of scholarly interpretations of John Williams’ music for the opening scene of Jaws (1975). Second, it is argued that music may add meaning on different levels and a three level model of film music analysis is suggested in which the music as an expressive device, the fiction world as a dramatic space and kinds of audience engagement are conceived as three separate, yet interacting, levels of the filmic experience.

Hearing Things and Dancing Numbers: Embodying Transformation, Topology at Tate Modern

This paper reports on a weekend performance event at the Tate Modern that explored how the senses of sound and movement can be used to apprehend geometrical and topological shapes and mathematical concepts. The sound sculpture Knots and Donuts spatialized sound and sonified space. It attuned the ‘mind’s ear’ and the auditory imagination to conceive of a Borromean Knot and a torus within an immersive three-dimensional sound field. Through dance movement, the choreography of Ordinal 5 actualized the specific mathematical entity as understood in category theory. Both parts of the programme are considered as a performance as research experiment with an audience. Its aim was to understand how the sensory experience of the embodied mind might provide a basis of rationality in which meaning is not restricted to text and image, that is, an embodied topology.

Abbas Kiarostami: A cinema of silence

Abstract Abbas Kiarostami’s cinema has been described as a cinema of ‘evidence’ (Nancy), ‘delay and uncertainty’ (Mulvey), ‘ellipsis and omission’ (Saeed-Vafa and Rosenbaum) and “displaced allegories’ (Mottahedeh). This article suggests that by applying a new and interdisciplinary interpretation of ‘silence’ as an umbrella term, the variety of these readings will converge into a cohesive system and result in a better understanding and appreciation of the oeuvre of this Iranian auteur. The focus of this article is mainly on the auditory configurations of silence and their performative functions and possible ideological implications. One of the conclusions of this research is that in these present absences we not only ‘hear things because we cannot see everything’ (Žižek), but we are provided with a forced freedom to find and perceive experiences through silences that otherwise would be hardly imaginable. Also, in addition to the role of the audio-viewer/interpreter, silence will be regarded as the main vehicle of representing a poetic and philosophical Weltanschauung that seeks ‘to be without being’ and ‘present without showing’. This is a cinema of silence, indeed, in which silence acts as a space for (re)birth of philosophical questions (Chion, Nancy), aesthetic emphases, and ‘witnessing and passing’ as an inevitable option.

Hearing things: Inside outness and ‘sonic ghosts’

This article will consider sound as a glue between internal and external experience, a link between sensing and cognition, memory and perception. In looking at research in neuroscience, specifically Eugene Izhikevich’s work with models of spiking neurons, parallels may be drawn with faulty source monitoring where a subject cannot differentiate between external and internal stimuli, and with a collapsing of present into the past. These ideas will be discussed through a number of sonic artworks that have neural plasticity, space and location at their core.