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Laura Sebastiani

3 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 2023-2026

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Integrated central and autonomic signatures of concentrative and analytical meditation in expert practitioners

Scientific Reports August 29, 2026 Alejandro Luis Callara, Mohammad Hadi Azarabad, Laura Sebastiani et al.

Meditation has long been associated with improvements in mental well-being, emotional regulation, and attentional control. However, the diversity of meditative techniques and variability in participant expertise across studies have hindered the systematic identification of their neurophysiological correlates. To address this challenge, we investigated the neurophysiological signatures of...

Analytical meditation improves physiological well-being in expert practitioners: a study on central and peripheral neurophysiological correlates

bioRxiv Preprint Server December 8, 2025 Alejandro Luis Callara, Mohammad Hadi Azarabad, Laura Sebastiani et al. preprint

Meditation has been long associated with improvements in mental well-being, emotional regulation, and attentional control. Yet, the diversity of meditative techniques and participant expertise has hindered the systematic identification of their neurophysiological correlates supporting these benefits. To address this challenge, we investigated the neurophysiological signatures of concentrative...

Is Hypnotic Induction Necessary to Experience Hypnosis and Responsible for Changes in Brain Activity?

Brain Sciences May 29, 2023 Alejandro Luis Callara, Žan Zelič, Lorenzo Fontanelli et al. 7 citations

The relevance of formal hypnotic induction to the experience of trance and its neural correlates is not clear, in that hypnotizability, beliefs and expectation of hypnosis may play a major role. The aim of the study was assessing the EEG brain activity of participants with high (highs) or low hypnotizability scores (lows), aware of their hypnotizability level and informed that the session will...