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Am I depressed or just deep?
(Distinguishing between response to negative life events vs. depression as a disease; touches on issues brought up by Csikszentmihalyi on lackof depression in individuals experiencing brutal oppression, such as Holocaust survivors, later developing depression after conditions improve. Paula Bloom.)

Does marijuana enhance experimentally induced anxiety?
Pillard, McNair, and Fisher, 1974

Two experiments tested whether laboratory stressors induce greater or more variable anxiety in marijuana-intoxicated subjects. In experiment 1, marijuana and placebo subjects were shown a motion picture film depicting dental procedures. In experiment 2, they were subjected to the stress of giving a short videotaped speach. We found no significant difference between marijuana and placebo subjects in anxiety response to these two stressors, as measured by a mood adjective rating scale.

Site Specific Live Electronic Music: A Sound-Artist’s Perspective

Ten years of telerehabilitation: A literature overview of technologies and clinical applications

This paper aims at delivering a structured overview of telerehabilitation literature by analysing the entire set of articles under the search terms "telerehabilitation" or "tele-rehabilitation" to portray "state of the art" ten years after the publication of the first scientific article on the topic. A structured study has been conducted by considering all those articles containing the word "telerehabilitation" or "tele-rehabilitation". Medline, Embase, Cochrane, UK Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health databases have been interrogated for articles between 1998 and 2008. 146 scientific articles were found. 56 articles focus on patient treatment, 23 are reviews, 3 are to be considered as both patient treatment papers and reviews, 53 are either technical reports, system descriptions or analyses of new approaches; 8 are general discussion on telerehabilitation. The present paper draw the scenario of the first ten years of telerehabilitation, focussing on clinical applications and technologies. Basically, it confirms the lack of comprehensive studies providing evidence for supporting decision and policy-makers in adopting telerehabilitation technologies in the clinical practice. An overall lack of standardisation in the used terminology also results from the analysis of keywords, which is typical of quite recent fields of application.

What makes live music aesthetically intriguing or meaningful? How can live music be

essentially site-specific and in what ways a work can manifest itself in a particular space? In

turn, why would this be of any interest to an audience? To what extent is improvisation still

meaningful? Should a work remain live at any cost? What is communicated in a performance

and why would it be of any interest? Does a performance necessarily aim to some sort of

expression?

Such are the questions the author attempts to answer via his artistic output. This paper

describes the main goals of this practice, and identifies the key elements that make a work

substantially live, site-specific and (hopefully) aesthetically intriguing. It is further shown

how this practice originates from a profoundly-rooted exploratory attitude to form a unique

aesthetic ethos. It is of paramount concern for the author to address the technical challenges

that a live electronic music paradigm poses while remaining faithful to his aspirations.

Aesthetically speaking, the author describes his general strategy in terms of three interrelating

concepts: ‘Ekstasis’ (to bring someone out of their usual way of being), ‘Gelassenheit’ (the

state where sound is found unequivocal and mysterious – its phenomenological quintessence),

and ‘Psychagogia’ (to enact a shift in one’s state of being). Various techniques allow the

artistic output to be consistent with the aforementioned concepts, and selected examples are

described.