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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience September 12, 2025 Dwivedi Krishna, Deepeshwar Singh, N. K. Manjunath correction
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2025.1576642.].
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience September 5, 2025 Alessandro Sergi, Antonino Messina, Gabriella Martino et al.
The Complexity of Consciousness and Orch OR Orch OR states that phenomena such as the discrete perception of time unfolding, the subjective wholeness of perception, spatio-temporal binding, causal free will [28], mechanisms of anesthesia, and the so-called "hard problem" are explainable aspects of consciousness. It organizes these phenomena within a systematic framework capable of explaining...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience August 26, 2025 Eyad Talal Attar 8 citations
Introduction This scientific investigation explored how meditation influences neural sound stimulus responses by employing EEG techniques during both meditative states and auditory oddball tasks. The study evaluated event-related potentials alongside theta, alpha and beta spectral power while employing machine learning techniques to distinguish meditative states from cognitive tasks. Methods...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience August 11, 2025 Human-Friedrich Unterrainer 1 citation
Oceanic states of consciousness-characterized by ego dissolution, unity, and timelessness-have long occupied a liminal space between psychopathology and transcendence. This paper explores these states through the interdisciplinary lens of existential neuroscience, integrating insights from psychoanalysis, existentialism, affective neuroscience, and psychedelic research. Starting with the...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience July 24, 2025 Richard Ambron
Studies of nociception resulted in a theory in which the quality of pain - the suffering - arises when action potentials (APs) from the thalamus that encode information about an injury induce a long-term potentiation (LTP) at synapses on pyramidal neurons in a pain center (PC) within the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). The LTP sensitizes transmission across the synapses via the activation of...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience May 14, 2025 Martín Carrasco-Gómez, Alejandra García-Colomo, Jesús Cabrera-Álvarez et al.
Introduction Research on the influence of transcranial alternating current stimulation over alpha functional connectivity (FC) is scarce, even when it poses as a potential treatment for various diseases. This study aimed to investigate the effects of individual alpha frequency tACS (IAF-tACS) on FC within the default mode network (DMN) in healthy individuals, particularly following the triple...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience January 22, 2025 Sara Sorella, Cristiano Crescentini, Alessio Matiz et al. 8 citations
Mind wandering (MW) encompasses both a deliberate and a spontaneous disengagement of attention from the immediate external environment to unrelated internal thoughts. Importantly, MW has been suggested to have an inverse relationship with mindfulness, a state of nonjudgmental awareness of present-moment experience. Although they are, respectively, associated with increased and decreased...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience January 6, 2025 Daniel Yochai Panitz, Avi Mendelsohn, Joana Cabral et al. 5 citations
Interest has been growing in the use of mindfulness meditation (MM) as a therapeutic practice, as accumulating evidence highlights its potential to effectively address a range of mental conditions. While many fMRI studies focused on neural activation and functional connectivity during meditation, the impact of long-term MM practice on spontaneous brain activity, and on the expression of resting...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2025 Raquel Aparicio-Terrés, Samantha López-Mochales, Margarita Díaz-Andreu et al. 6 citations
In electronic music events, the driving four-on-the-floor music appears pivotal for inducing altered states of consciousness (ASCs). While various physiological mechanisms link repetitive auditory stimuli to ASCs, entrainment-a brainwave synchronization through periodic external stimuli-has garnered primary focus. However, there are no studies systematically exploring the relationship between...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2025 Niclas Kaiser, Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz 4 citations
Relational neuroscience struggles to capture the complex dynamics of shared interpersonal moments, leading to gaps in understanding whether and how interdependencies between interacting persons translate into something meaningful. Current neuroscientific research often focuses on motor synchronization and cognition rather than the implicit relational qualities central to psychotherapy. We argue...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2025 Evan Alexander Owens, Robert O Duncan 2 citations
Bodily Self-Consciousness (BSC) is the perception of bodily awareness that arises from the integration of neuronal signals in multiple sensory modalities. BSC is composed of embodiment (the perception of owning a body) and presence (the perception of being at a location). Converging lines of evidence suggest embodiment and presence are supported by different neural networks. Several models have...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2025 Diego Iacono, Gloria C Feltis
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and near-death experiences (NDEs) represent profound disruptions in brain function, often associated with dramatic changes in consciousness, self-perception, and behavior. While these events are typically studied for their pathological consequences, a growing body of evidence suggests they may also trigger unexpected cognitive and creative enhancements in a subset...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2025 Joachim Keppler
Empirical findings indicate that conscious states are inextricably linked to long-range synchronized activity patterns that result from phase transitions and exhibit the key features of self-organized criticality. This article builds a bridge between these neurophysiological characteristics of consciousness and the framework of quantum electrodynamics (QED), which provides the appropriate...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2025 Dwivedi Krishna, Deepeshwar Singh, N K Manjunath
Electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha asymmetry has become a pivotal area of research for understanding functional hemispheric differences in neuroscience. To the best of our knowledge, the relationship between frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) and the depth of meditation has yet to be thoroughly examined. To address this gap, the present cross-sectional study was conducted to explore the meditative...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience December 11, 2024 Scott Shannon, Jamarie Geller 3 citations
We are experiencing a mental health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Over the last two decades this crisis grew from a perfect storm of rising insurance deductibles, escalating social stressors, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a critical workforce deficiency. Perhaps no mental health arena has a greater shortfall of effective treatment options than Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as the...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience June 19, 2024 Giuseppe Pasculli, Pierpaolo Busan, Eric S. Jackson et al. 5 citations
Developmental stuttering (DS) is a neurodevelopmental speech-motor disorder characterized by symptoms such as blocks, repetitions, and prolongations. Persistent DS often has a significant negative impact on quality of life, and interventions for it have limited efficacy. Herein, we briefly review existing research on the neurophysiological underpinnings of DS -specifically, brain metabolic and...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience February 7, 2024
EDITORIAL article Front. Hum. Neurosci., 07 February 2024Sec. Cognitive Neuroscience Volume 18 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1376909
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience January 17, 2024 Beate Schmautz, Jürgen Fuchshuber, Deborah Andres et al. 7 citations
Background: Oceanic feelings represent a phenomenological structure of affective sensations that characteristically involve feelings of self-dissolution and feelings of unity and transcendence. This study presents the preliminary version of a self-report instrument to measure individual dispositions toward oceanic feelings in order to enable further research within the concept of primary...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience January 3, 2024 Keisuke Suzuki, Anil K. Seth, David J. Schwartzman 20 citations
Visual hallucinations (VHs) are perceptions of objects or events in the absence of the sensory stimulation that would normally support such perceptions. Although all VHs share this core characteristic, there are substantial phenomenological differences between VHs that have different aetiologies, such as those arising from Neurodegenerative conditions, visual loss, or psychedelic compounds....
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Brian Lord, Joseph L. Sanguinetti, Lisannette Ruiz et al. 28 citations
Transcranial focused ultrasound (TFUS) is an emerging neuromodulation tool for temporarily altering brain activity and probing network functioning. The effects of TFUS on the default mode network (DMN) are unknown. The study examined the effects of transcranial focused ultrasound (TFUS) on the functional connectivity of the default mode network (DMN), specifically by targeting the posterior...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Patrick Mcnamara, Jordan Grafman 8 citations
We review and synthesize recent religion and brain studies and find that at a broad network neuroscience level, religious/spiritual experiences (RSEs) appear to depend crucially upon interactions between the default mode network (DMN), the frontoparietal network (FPN), and the salience network (SN). We see this general result as broadly consistent with Menon's et al. "Triple Network or...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge 2 citations
How do reflexes operate so quickly with so much multimodal information on the environment? How might unconscious processes help reveal the nature of consciousness? The Default Space Theory of Consciousness (DST) offers a novel way to interpret these questions by describing how sensory inputs, cognitive functions, emotional states, and unconscious processes are integrated by a single unified...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Suguru Kawazu, Marie Amitani, Hajime Suzuki et al. 2 citations
School refusal is one of the serious problems with children's mental health, and various studies have examined its prevalence and factors among students. Although many studies suggested that anxiety and depression are deeply associated with school refusal, there is little agreement as to effective interventions. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of mindfulness...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Beatrix Krause-Sorio, Sergio Becerra, Prabha Siddarth et al. 1 citation
Exposure to art, nature, or meditation, all transcending human experiences, has beneficial effects on health and wellbeing. Focusing inward or watching art and nature videos elicits positive emotions that can help heal stress-related conditions. In a pilot functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) study, we explored the effect of watching digital art or nature videos compared to contemplating the...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, Chris Percy correction
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1233119.].