Frontiers in Psychiatry
October 8, 2026
Anthony L. Back, Cynthia J. Price, Bonnie A. Mcgregor et al.
Cancer patients arrive for psilocybin therapy with bodies altered by illness and treatment — bodies that they have learned to brace against, dissociate from, or scan for threat. Research on psilocybin-assisted therapy for cancer-related depression and anxiety consistently identifies the quality of the acute subjective experience — reflected in constructs such as acceptance, surrender,...
Quest Journal of Management and Social Sciences
October 7, 2026
Udaya Raj Paudel
Background: Romantic literary scholarship has increasingly examined the relationship between Romantic imagination and British imperial expansion, yet the material role of colonial commodities in shaping metropolitan consciousness remains comparatively underexplored. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater provides a significant site for examining this relationship because its...
Current Sexual Health Reports
October 7, 2026
Suzanne Mulvehill
Abstract Purpose of Review Female orgasmic disorder/difficulty (FOD) remains prevalent, yet treatments are limited and outcomes variable. Traditional approaches have focused primarily on stimulation, behavioral techniques, sex therapy, and psychological processes, without fully accounting for state-dependent and non-genital pathways through which orgasm may become accessible. These pathways may...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 7, 2026
Qiao Ou
preprint
Sync × Coverage: A Cross-Dataset EEG Signature for Deep Meditative States Author: Qiao Ou (ORCID 0009-0008-4540-1381)Date: 2026-10-08Version: 1.0 --- Abstract We report a two-dimensional EEG signature — Sync × Coverage — that separates deep meditative states from sleep, anesthesia, and disorders of consciousness. The signature is validated across six independent public datasets totaling 328...
International Journal of Arabic-English Studies
October 6, 2026
Bayan AlAmmouri
This paper examines Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel (2025) as a technological dystopia that exposes the neoliberal extension of market‑driven rationality into the human psyche. Neoliberalism attempts to extend the figure of the homo economicus into a seamless homo technologicus seeking to capture even the most intimate terrains of subjectivity—dreams, emotions, and aspirations. The novel...
Neuron
October 6, 2026
Adrian M. Owen, Melvyn A Goodale
The recent controversies surrounding theories of consciousness invite a more fundamental reassessment of their scientific value. We argue that the field's most transformative advances have been driven by rigorous empirical research rather than overarching theoretical frameworks and that future progress may depend on returning to that tradition.
Frontiers in Public Health
October 6, 2026
Vivian W. L. Tsang, Faizan Bhatia, Anne Ferrey et al.
Background: The group therapy model has been recently favored as a means of conducting psychedelic assisted therapies for mental health disorders. However, there is a paucity of literature showing strengths or drawbacks of this approach and comparisons of safety and efficacy to individual therapy. This systematic review aims to address this gap in literature. Methods: We included original...
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
October 6, 2026
Chad Collyer, Gia Han Le, Maryam Hassan et al.
Short-acting tryptamine psychedelics are emerging as candidate psychiatric therapeutics with pharmacological profiles that may offer practical advantages over longer-acting psychedelics. N,N-dimethyltryptamine (N,N-DMT) and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) differ in pharmacokinetic, receptor, and phenomenological properties, while zalsupindole is a putatively non-hallucinogenic...
Psychological Medicine
October 6, 2026
Avery Chan Eun, Kevin H. Yang, Joseph J Palamar
Psilocybin use has increased in the US alongside promising therapeutic potential for depression, raising concerns that individuals may forgo conventional mental health treatment for unsupervised psilocybin use. However, no nationally representative studies have examined whether psilocybin use is associated with differential treatment utilization or perceived unmet need for mental health care...
Psychopharmacology
October 5, 2026
Jingqi Xu, Adrien Nette, Christina Zakala et al.
Cannabis and tobacco are widely used substances with addiction potential, which have opposing effects on cognition and subjective experience and are often co-used in a single occasion. The purpose of this systematic review was to synthesize evidence of the acute effects of same-occasion co-use of cannabis and tobacco. Databases Embase, Medline, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Web of Science were searched...