PsyArXiv
June 18, 2026
Tim Neville Palmer, Noémie Goeuriot, Leonie Koban et al.
preprint
Emotion introspection has been proposed as a key mechanism through which mental health or well-being interventions (such as meditation or psychotherapy) act. However, so far, evidence has almost exclusively come from questionnaire measures. Here, we propose a brain-based measure of emotion introspection. We recruited 25 participants to perform an emotion introspection task after completing a...
PsyArXiv
December 16, 2025
Tim Neville Palmer, Clémence Alméras, Joshua Marquez et al.
preprint
Meditation techniques have been identified as relating differently to mental health outcomes, challenging experiences (e.g. anxiety, somatic effects, and psychotic-like experiences) and cognitive and emotional processes. Our aim was to better understand the differential relationship between ‘low body focused’ and ‘high body focused’ meditation techniques with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs),...
PLoS One
December 5, 2024
Timothy Palmer, Kenza Kadri, Eric Fakra et al.
5 citations
Much work has investigated beneficial effects of mindfulness-based meditation methods, but less work has investigated potential risks and differences across meditation methods. We addressed this in a large pre-registered online survey including 613 mediators where we correlated participants' experience with fifty meditation techniques to psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and mystical...
Biological Psychiatry
February 1, 2023
Anne Maj van der Velden, Jacqueline Scholl, Else-Marie Elmholdt et al.
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and its prevalence is on the rise. One of the most debilitating aspects of depression is the dominance and persistence of depressive rumination, a state of mind that is linked to onset and recurrence of depression. Mindfulness meditation trains adaptive attention regulation and present-moment embodied awareness, skills that may be...