Substance use and behavioral addictions are escalating on a global scale. The Global Burden of Disease Study underscores a rising impact on disability-adjusted life years attributable to substance use. This challenge influences families, communities, healthcare infrastructure, and legal systems; nevertheless, the majority of individuals suffering from substance use disorders face challenges in...
Aims: This study of people with motor neurone disease (MND) and caregivers examined how baseline levels of psychological distress influenced engagement with and psychological responses to a mindfulness intervention. This was with a view to guiding how services can best target mindfulness programs. Methods: Forty participants completed an MND-adapted four-session mindfulness-based stress...
Recent advances in psychedelic neuroscience have revitalized scientific inquiry into the biological foundations of consciousness. Large-scale neuroimaging studies have consistently demonstrated that psychedelics increase functional integration across distributed brain networks while weakening the stability of normally dominant neural architectures associated with self referential processing and...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition marked by persistent social communication deficits and repetitive behaviors, with communication abilities ranging from nonverbal to verbally fluent yet socially impaired. These deficits, linked to disrupted neural connectivity in regions like the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), reward circuits, and dorsal/ventral speech...
The use of drugs for recreational purposes has changed dramatically, involving a variety of substances such as opioids, hallucinogens, and cannabinoids. Although these substances are often initially used for recreational purposes, their psychoactive properties can contribute to the development of addiction, withdrawal syndromes, and significant physical and mental health complications. The...
This manuscript introduces the Alabdulgader Heart-Based Resonant Field Theory of Consciousness, a paradigm shifting framework proposing that human consciousness emerges from bioelectromagnetic interactions centered on the heart’s resonant field, rather than the cerebral cortex alone. Building upon biophysical, neurocardiological, and quantum informed principles, the HBRF Theory posits that the...
Psychedelic therapies have emerged as a modality of treatment for several treatment resistant diseases, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), treatment resistant depression, substance use disorders, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Arguably more than with other therapies, their success is dependent on the facilitator and the context of the administration. Several programs...
Dreaming has fascinated mankind since antiquity. In most Christian cultures people believe that dreams bring messages of supernatural beings such as gods, angels and demons to the sleeper. Dreams contain often hidden messages, warning the sleeper for danger, predicting the future, clarifying situations, or rewarding or punishing the sleeping person. Many religious people assume that Gods preach...
This article tries to define and reach a deep understanding of the intimate nature behind the present-day situation in science and medicine, and how this affects nowadays the human crisis of the world. It also shows how at the base of all these problems rests the stagnant stage of the level of consciousness of rational thinking of the status quo: namely, modern rationality as the unique...
In 2022, the journal Cogent Psychology published my paper entitled “The Trans-Theoretical Model for Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Paradigm for Systematically Advancing Evidence-Based Practice and Research.” The paper traced the three historical waves of cognitive behavioral therapy (behavioral, cognitive, and mindfulness/acceptance-based) and introduced the Trans-Theoretical Model for...
Purpose of the study: The objective of this study is to evaluate subjective changes in sleep, insomnia, and dream production in chronic benzodiazepine (BZ) users enrolled in a withdrawal program. BZs, widely prescribed to treat insomnia, are likely to alter sleep structure. This research aims to determine the extent to which discontinuing these treatments promotes the restoration of sleep and...
The physical origins of conscious experience remain unresolved, particularly with respect to whether artificial systems can ever instantiate awareness. The Heart Based Resonant Field (HBRF) framework developed here proposes that consciousness in living organisms emerges from multiscale electromagnetic and quantum coherence sustained by the human heart. Drawing on quantum electrodynamics (QED),...
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic with unique pharmacological and psychological properties. Its antidepressant effects are mediated through the glutamatergic system and subsequent neuroplasticity and can be amplified when combined with psychotherapy. The ketamine-induced dissociative state should not be seen as an unwanted side-effect, but as a unique opportunity for psychotherapeutic...
Background: Adolescence is a phase blended with various challenges and changes. How someone takes these challenges and accepts the changes (physically, emotionally, or psychologically) are the major concerns of social scientists. Objective: Keeping that objective in mind, current research has been done to assess if emotional regulation leads to impulsivity and anxiety through the moderating...
The great advances in science precipitated by the advent of quantum mechanics in the 20th century have profound implications for the nature of reality. The universe is now assumed to be fundamentally quantum at all scales of existence. As such, ancient questions about what the roles of human beings in the universe are, what is the relationship between the observer and the observed, the role of...
Dreams, generated by the sleeping brain, are one of the most common and fascinating phenomena of human mind. But the role and mechanism of dreaming remain largely unknown. This paper provided the phenomenon showing that the brain is trying, but always failing, to correctly process information in the sleeping state. We proposed that dreams are the product of the brain retaining partial activity...