International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
October 20, 2026
Golnaz Baghdadi, Ali Motie Nasrabadi
Hypnosis is a unique state of consciousness marked by heightened response to suggestions, focused attention, and altered cognitive control. This article explores the neural connections involved in hypnosis through electroencephalography (EEG) studies, examining brain changes during hypnosis and their relationship to hypnotic depth and susceptibility. Theta waves, linked to hypnotic depth, are...
Emerging Adulthood
October 19, 2026
Kayla K. Giorlando, Jennifer E. Merrill, Ethan Moitra et al.
Cannabis use among emerging adults has reached historically high levels, yet there is growing evidence that cannabis use during this developmental period may exacerbate existing psychopathology and increase risk of developing schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. This qualitative study examines perceptions of how cannabis use impacts psychiatric symptoms among twenty emerging adults (ages 18–24) at...
October 19, 2026
Joe Gough
Abstract This chapter considers a range of topics relevant to developing a positive view of human beings: the role of metaphors in our self-understanding, the bodymind, the nature of the self, the significance of our social relationships, Charles Taylor’s theory of the internalization of the self, autonomy, sex and gender, and consciousness. It argues for views on each of these topics,...
Preprints.org
October 19, 2026
Maxwell Jackson Harrell
preprint
The transmission of consciousness through a chemical synapses is an under-specified probable occurrence. Chemical transmission is essential for neuronal propagation and neural propagation is essential within many existing measurements of consciousness. The development and plasticity of consciousness throughout an animal's lifetime requires grounded chemical distinctions, executive and...
Neuropharmacology
October 19, 2026
U S Drozd, V V Bulygina, G T Shishkina et al.
Exposure to acute, inescapable stress triggers a coordinated neural and endocrine response across corticolimbic and brainstem circuits. Although subanesthetic ketamine has rapid antidepressant effects, it is unclear whether its modulation of the stress-response network depends on the presence of an acute stressor. In this study, naïve rats received subanesthetic ketamine (15 mg/kg) or a...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
October 19, 2026
Jack R. Waters, Brian Madeira, Michael Neil Shadlen et al.
preprint
Time estimation is critical to many cognitive operations, including decision-making, working memory, and action planning. Neural correlates of interval timing have been described across multiple cortical and subcortical networks, both at a single-neuron level (as ramping activity) and population level (as dynamical motifs). Low-dose ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic and potent antidepressant,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 19, 2026
Kimio Shiraishi
preprint
This preprint presents a focused critical narrative review of how safety findings for Cannabis and Psilocybe preparations are transferred across products, formulations, exposures, test systems, populations, and conditions of use. The central question is not whether safety evidence can ever be extrapolated, but when such extrapolation is justified and what information is needed to support it....
Psychopharmacology
October 19, 2026
Landon M. Klein, Jared M. Kopelman, Richard F Sharp et al.
Classical psychedelic drugs such as the tryptamine psilocybin can alter temporal perception. Previously, the phenylethylamine psychedelic 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), a 5-HT2A receptor agonist, altered timing precision and accuracy in mice performing the discrete-trials temporal discrimination task (TDT), a retrospective timing task where subjects differentially respond depending on...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 18, 2026
Karadağ Erdal
preprint
Competitive pressure brings athletes into contact with uncertainty, intense bodily arousal, evaluative threat, and concerns about identity and purpose. This critical integrative narrative review examines whether experiences described as transcendence, situation-specific religious coping, and spiritual intelligence contribute to cognitive regulation in sport. The synthesis connects sport-focused...
Research Society and Development
October 18, 2026
Giovanna Azevedo Rodrigues, Marcelo Eduardo Caixeta
Christopher Peacocke proposed that a concept is individuated by the conditions a subject must meet to possess it, bringing the philosophy of concepts closer to cognition, but he left unexplained how those conditions arise. This article aims to propose, from the standpoint of Cognitive Psychiatry, a genetic and communicational theory of conceptualization that completes Peacocke’s theory of...