Cognitive psychiatry of mediumship: A genetic, neuroconnectomic, interhemispheric, and psychofunctional hypothesis of brain organization in mediums
Research, Society and Development September 15, 2026 João Acyr Chueiry Filho, Giovanna Azevedo Rodrigues, Luiz Costa et al.
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...