The same act of attending to breathing may function as a step on a Buddhist path, a stress-regulation technique, or an exercise in a public meditation course. This article asks how the relations that give embodied attention religious and ethical force are reorganized when practice moves across institutions. It first traces how Indic sati/smṛti was rendered through Chinese nian (念) and...
Depression is increasingly recognized as a multifactorial disorder in which immune dysregulation contributes substantially to disease initiation, progression, and treatment response. Among the immune mediators implicated, serum inflammatory cytokines-including IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α, IFN-γ, and C-reactive protein-have emerged as key links between peripheral inflammation and central nervous system...