Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Egbert Haverkamp, Erik Olsman, Branislava Ćurčić-blake et al.
1 citation
It has become increasingly accepted within psychotherapy to incorporate various forms of spirituality and religiosity to address the rising prevalence of mental health issues. This is well-founded, as a growing number of findings report benefits of spiritual practices for individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, and stress. However, science-based guidelines on how to embed spiritual...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
February 24, 2023
André Aleman, Iris E C Sommer
1 citation
Hallucinations are intriguing phenomena that may negatively impact several aspects of life in people with or without a psychiatric disorder. Being sensory experiences without corresponding external stimulation of the relevant senses, they may arise from a confusion between internally generated and externally presented stimuli. They can occur in different modalities and take on different forms...
Scientific Reports
April 15, 2022
S. Weber, André Aleman, Kenneth Hugdahl
Everyday cognitive functioning is characterized by constant alternations between different modes of information processing, driven by constant fluctuations in environmental demands. At the neural level, this is realized through corresponding dynamic shifts in functional activation and network connectivity. A distinction is often made between resting and task processing and between task-negative...
NeuroImage: Clinical
2018
Jasper Looijestijn, Jan Dirk Blom, Hans W Hoek et al.
The various models proposed for the mediation of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) implicate a considerable number of brain areas and mechanisms. To establish which of those mechanisms are actually involved in the mediation of AVH, we developed a novel method to analyze functional MRI data, which allows for the detection of the full network of mutually interacting brain states, and the...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
January 2017
Selwyn B Renard, Rafaële J C Huntjens, Paul H Lysaker et al.
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) and dissociative disorders (DDs) are described in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and tenth edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) as 2 categorically distinct diagnostic categories. However, several studies indicate high levels of...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
December 29, 2016
Michiel van Elk, André Aleman
We present the theory of predictive processing as a unifying framework to account for the neurocognitive basis of religion and spirituality. Our model is substantiated by discussing four different brain mechanisms that play a key role in religion and spirituality: temporal brain areas are associated with religious visions and ecstatic experiences; multisensory brain areas and the default mode...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
October 3, 2015
Jasper Looijestijn, Jan Dirk Blom, André Aleman et al.
56 citations
The full body of research on the nature of psychosis and its determinants indicates that a considerable number of factors are relevant to the development of hallucinations, delusions, and other positive symptoms, ranging from neurodevelopmental parameters and altered connectivity of brain regions to impaired cognitive functioning and social factors. We aimed to integrate these factors in a...
Sarah Weber, André Aleman, Kenneth Hugdahl
preprint
Abstract Everyday cognitive functioning is characterized by constant alternations between different modes of information processing, driven by fluctuations in environmental demands. At the neural level, this is realized through corresponding dynamic shifts in functional activation and network connectivity. A distinction is often made between the Default Mode Network (DMN) as a task-negative...