Mediumship is a complex human phenomenon that can be investigated by cognitive psychiatry and consciousness neuroscience without theological assumptions or psychopathological reductionism. This study aimed to formulate and theoretically substantiate a neuroconnectomic, genetic, and psychofunctional hypothesis of mediumship as a network phenotype characterized by greater interhemispheric...
Categorical nosological systems frequently fall short when confronted with patients whose presentations cross established diagnostic boundaries. We report M.S., a 44-year-old Brazilian man involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit who presented with systematized persecutory ideation of mechanistic–technological content (chip implantation, satellite-based surveillance), structural...