Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2025
Shenhan Qiu
1 citation
Meditation offers a controlled behavioral context for probing attention, arousal, and self-regulation. Rather than positioning the present work as a discovery of novel neural signatures, we analyze consumer-grade EEG recordings with the explicit aim of comparing linear and non-linear classification approaches for distinguishing meditation, alert rest, and drowsy rest. We evaluate Linear...
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2023
Melissa C. Selinger, David M. Compton, Hamilton Morris et al.
3 citations
The management of patients with concomitant chronic pain (CP) and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) remains challenging for clinicians. Current chronic pharmacologic management is often unsuccessful, or has intolerable side effects to the patients. While not restricted to patients with chronic pain, these patients are often diagnosed with depression, presenting with symptoms such as poor mood,...
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2021
Pei-Chen Lo, Nasir Hussain
1 citation
This paper reports distinct spatio-spectral properties of Zen-meditation EEG (electroencephalograph), compared with resting EEG, by implementing unsupervised machine learning scheme in clustering the brain mappings of centroid frequency (BMFc). Zen practitioners simultaneously concentrate on the third ventricle, hypothalamus and corpora quadrigemina touniversalize all brain neurons to construct...
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2021
Shannon O’brien, David M. Compton, Julianna M. Davis et al.
Traditionally, ketamine was considered useful as a dissociative anesthetic. More recently, ketamine has been examined for its effects as a fast-acting antidepressant, for treatment-resistant depression, and as a non-opiate treatment of chronic pain. Unfortunately, ketamine has enjoyed popularity as a recreational drug among both adolescents and young adults. While some research suggests the use...
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2020
Ding-Yu Chung
This paper proposes that conscious, explicit memory, implicit memory, and instincts constitute the four-component mind for the mental origins of psychotherapy and personality. The mental origin of the personality theories including the big five personality traits, the MBTI, the social style model, the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, and the Schwartz’s theory of basic human values is from the...
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2017
Pei-Chen Lo, Tian Wu, Fang-Ling Liu
4 citations
Macrostate and microstate characteristics of interregional nonlinear interdependence of brain dynamics are investigated for Zen-meditation and normal resting EEG. Evaluation of nonlinear interdependence based on nonlinear dynamic theory and phase space reconstruction is employed in the 30-channel electroencephalographic (EEG) signals to characterize the functioning interactions among different...
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2017
David M. Compton, Kerri L. Dietrich, Peniel Esquivel et al.
2 citations
A drug of abuse, Foxy or Methoxy Foxy gained popularity among recreational users as an alternative to MDMA (Ecstasy). Considerable research into the consequences of MDMA use is available, yet much remains unknown about the neurobiological consequences of Foxy use. In addition, research into the long-term neuropsychological repercussions associated with these two compounds remains incomplete....
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
2011
Pierre R. Blanquet
8 citations
The interdisciplinary researches for a scientific explanation of consciousness constitute one of the most exciting challenges of contemporary science. However, although considerable progress has been made in the neurophysiology of states of consciousness such as sleep/waking cycles, investigation of subjective and objective nature of consciousness contents raises still serious difficulties....