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By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind (2021)
Journal Article
Powell, A. J., & Cook, C. C. (2021). By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 7(1), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.20092

Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind seeks to bring the theories and discoveries of the Cognitive Science of Religion to broader discussions of mental health. In doing so, the authors introduce auditory verbal hallucinations as one example of... Read More about By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind.

‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course (2021)
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Russell, A., Johnson, L., Tupper, E., Keegan, A., Atkher, H., & Mullard, J. (2021). ‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course. Teaching Anthropology, 10(3), Article 38-45. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i3.604

'Covid-19 and Me' was an affective learning blog post exercise assigned to 1st year undergraduate students taking a medical anthropology module at the start of academic year 2020-21. We describe the way in which a collective analysis of the accounts... Read More about ‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course.

The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep (2021)
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Powell, A., & Cook, C. C. (2021). The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep. Journal for the study of religious experience, 6(1), 45-51

Whilst conducting qualitative studies with both Christians who report hearing supernatural voices and Spiritualists who report ‘clairaudience’, we have encountered numerous instances of what appeared to be hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences being... Read More about The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep.

When spirits speak: Absorption, attribution, and identity among spiritualists who report ‘clairaudient’ voice experiences (2020)
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Powell, A., & Moseley, P. (2020). When spirits speak: Absorption, attribution, and identity among spiritualists who report ‘clairaudient’ voice experiences. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 23(10), 841-856. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2020.1793310

For mental health researchers and others committed to a bio-cultural understanding of religious experience, there is a need for empirical studies capable of shedding light on the interplay between beliefs, personalities, and the occurrence of anomalo... Read More about When spirits speak: Absorption, attribution, and identity among spiritualists who report ‘clairaudient’ voice experiences.

Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy (2020)
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Cook, C. C., Powell, A., Alderson-Day, B., & Woods, A. (2022). Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy. Medical Humanities, 48(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-012021

Whereas previous research in the medical humanities has tended to neglect theology and religious studies, these disciplines sometimes have a very important contribution to make. The hearing of spiritually significant voices provides a case in point.... Read More about Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy.

Maximizing Telerehabilitation for Patients With Visual Loss After Stroke: Interview and Focus Group Study With Stroke Survivors, Carers, and Occupational Therapists (2020)
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Dunne, S., Close, H., Richards, N., Ellison, A., & Lane, A. R. (2020). Maximizing Telerehabilitation for Patients With Visual Loss After Stroke: Interview and Focus Group Study With Stroke Survivors, Carers, and Occupational Therapists. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10), Article e19604. https://doi.org/10.2196/19604

Background: Visual field defects are a common consequence of stroke, and entraining compensatory eye-movement strategies has been identified as the most promising rehabilitation option. There has been a move towards compensatory telerehabilitation op... Read More about Maximizing Telerehabilitation for Patients With Visual Loss After Stroke: Interview and Focus Group Study With Stroke Survivors, Carers, and Occupational Therapists.

The Role of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias (2020)
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Knight, H. C., Smith, D. T., & Ellison, A. (2020). The Role of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias. Neuropsychologia, 148, Article 107631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107631

The DLPFC is thought to be critically involved in maintaining attention away from behaviourally irrelevant information, and in the establishment of attentional control settings. These play an important role in the phenomenon of top-down bias to featu... Read More about The Role of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias.

Boerhaave´s Furnace: Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models (2020)
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Hendriksen, M. M., & Verwaal, R. E. (2020). Boerhaave´s Furnace: Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 43(3), 385-411. https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202000005

This article discusses the (re)construction and use of an Early modern instrument, better known as Herman Boerhaave's (1668–1738) little furnace. We investigate the origins, history and materiality of this furnace, and examine the dynamic relationshi... Read More about Boerhaave´s Furnace: Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models.

A qualitative study of design stakeholders’ views of developing and implementing a registry-based learning health system (2020)
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Dixon-Woods, M., Campbell, A., Chang, T., Martin, G., Georgiadis, A., Heney, V., Chew, S., Van Citters, A., Sabados, K., & Nelson, E. (2020). A qualitative study of design stakeholders’ views of developing and implementing a registry-based learning health system. Implementation Science, 15, Article 16 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-0976-1

It’s Just Steam: a qualitative analysis of New Zealand ENDS users’ perceptions of secondhand aerosol (2020)
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Haggart, K., Robertson, L., Blank, M., Popova, L., & Hoek, J. (2020). It’s Just Steam: a qualitative analysis of New Zealand ENDS users’ perceptions of secondhand aerosol. Tobacco Control, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055368

Introduction Many smokers who begin using electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) report vaping in settings where they would not have smoked and believe secondhand aerosol (SHA) is simply steam. However, current understanding of how ENDS users di... Read More about It’s Just Steam: a qualitative analysis of New Zealand ENDS users’ perceptions of secondhand aerosol.