Brain ConnectivityAugust 1, 2024Clara G. Zundel, Samantha L Ely, Cole Brokamp et al.
Background: Air pollution exposure has been associated with adverse cognitive and mental health outcomes in children, adolescents, and adults, although youth may be particularly susceptible given ongoing brain development. However, the neurodevelopmental mechanisms underlying the associations among air pollution, cognition, and mental health remain unclear. We examined the impact of particulate...
Hallucination is typically considered cognitive noise—an error requiring correction in both human and artificial intelligences. This thesis, however, positions hallucination as an essential generative function of sophisticated cognitive systems, whether biological or artificial. It explores historical and philosophical foundations—from Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Descartes' radical...
Ayahuasca ceremonies organize care through preparation, accompaniment, observation, and responses to distress. These functions resemble nursing work, but their purposes, authority, and accountability differ. This article examines what nursing can learn from documented ceremonial arrangements and what changes when a licensed nurse participates. It brings ethnographic accounts, religious...