56 results match your criteria: "Institute for Culture and Society ICS[Affiliation]"
The role of consciousness in triggering intellectual habits.
Front Hum Neurosci
June 2014
Mind-Brain Project, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra Pamplona, Spain.
A qualitative exploratory study of nursing students' assessment of the contribution of palliative care learning.
Nurse Educ Today
June 2014
University of Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), ATLANTES Research Program, Pamplona, Spain; Faculty of Nursing, Pamplona, Spain. Electronic address:
Objective: We explored the contribution of optional palliative care (PC) learning to the training of undergraduate nursing students.
Design: This is a qualitative, exploratory study.
Participants: PC students from two universities (n=236) responded to the open question: What was the contribution of the PC course to your training?
Methods: A thematic analysis of the respondents' answers was performed with investigator triangulation.
The problem of consciousness in habitual decision making.
Behav Brain Sci
February 2014
Mind-Brain Group, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. http://www.unav.es/centro/cultura-y-sociedad/mind_brain.
Newell & Shanks (N&S) carry out an extremely sharp and static distinction between conscious and unconscious decisions, ignoring a process that dynamically transfers decisions and actions between the conscious and unconscious domains of the mind: habitual decision making. We propose a new categorisation and discuss the main characteristics of this process from a philosophical and neuroscientific perspective.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInternational research: comparison and collaboration to understand and promote palliative care.
Palliat Med
February 2014
ATLANTES Research Program, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
A systematic review of the influence of opioids on advanced cancer patient survival.
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care
December 2013
aPalliative Care Unit, Clinic University of Navarra bUniversity of Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), ATLANTES Research Program: Human Dignity, Advance Disease and Palliative Care cBiomedical Humanities Department, Navarra University, Pamplona, Spain.
Purpose Of Review: Many health professionals still believe that opioids shorten the lifespan of patients. This situation implies that the ethical doctrine of double effect is often invoked to justify their use in extreme circumstances. The objective of this study is to revise the evidence existing in the recently published literature regarding the effect on patient survival of opioid used to control disease symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn update on the importance of monitoring serum magnesium in advanced disease patients.
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care
December 2013
aPalliative Care Unit, Clinic University of Navarra bUniversity of Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), ATLANTES Research Program: Human Dignity, Advance Disease and Palliative Care, Pamplona, Spain.
Purpose Of Review: Patients with advanced diseases are exposed to many causes of hypomagnesaemia, the most frequent being pharmacological causes through the administration of chemotherapy, antibiotics, proton pump inhibitors, and so on. The objective of this review is to demonstrate the importance of measuring magnesium levels in the blood of these patients.
Recent Findings: In the last decade, studies have been published showing a direct relationship between low levels of magnesium and nonspecific symptoms including pain that is difficult to control.