BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
July 3, 2025
Elnaz Lashgari, Emma Chen, Jackson Gregory et al.
4 citations
Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) is a therapeutic technique that involves immersing an individual in an environment with minimal sensory input or stimulation. The goal of REST is to induce a state of relaxation that is deeper than what can be achieved through other forms of relaxation techniques. Research suggests that REST can help reduce anxiety, alleviate chronic pain,...
European Journal of Neuroscience
September 1, 2024
Alessandra Buccella, Uri Maoz, Liad Mudrik
In recent decades, the neuroscientific community has moved from describing the neural underpinnings of mental phenomena-as characterized by experimental psychology and philosophy of mind-to attempting to redefine those mental phenomena based on neural findings. Nowadays, many are intrigued by the idea that neuroscience might provide the "missing piece" that would allow philosophers (and, to an...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
December 1, 2023
T. Dominik, Alfred Mele, Aaron Schurger et al.
The neuroscience of volition is an emerging subfield of the brain sciences, with hundreds of papers on the role of consciousness in action formation published each year. This makes the state-of-the-art in the discipline poorly accessible to newcomers and difficult to follow even for experts in the field. Here we provide a comprehensive summary of research in this field since its inception that...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
August 2023
Antonio I Triggiani, Gabriel Kreiman, Cara C Lewis et al.
In 1983 Benjamin Libet and colleagues published a paper apparently challenging the view that the conscious intention to move precedes the brain's preparation for movement. The experiment initiated debates about the nature of intention, the neurophysiology of movement, and philosophical and legal understanding of free will and moral responsibility. Here we review the concept of "conscious...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
April 1, 2022
Liad Mudrik, Inbal Gur Arie, Yoni Amir et al.
Findings demonstrating decision-related neural activity preceding volitional actions have dominated the discussion about how science can inform the free will debate. These discussions have largely ignored studies suggesting that decisions might be influenced or biased by various unconscious processes. If these effects are indeed real, do they render subjects' decisions less free or even unfree?...