Southeast Asian Business Review
September 27, 2026
Jefferson Bulan
Remote work has fundamentally transformed the psychological experience of information technology (IT) professionals, compounding occupational stressors that threaten personal well-being and organizational performance. This study examines the effectiveness of a structured, brief daily mindfulness intervention delivered via Microsoft Teams on perceived stress levels among remote IT professionals...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Shahin Siami
preprint
This paper presents an information-processing framework for examining consciousness across biological and artificial substrates. It treats humans and artificial intelligence as information-processing systems implemented on different physical substrates and evaluates claims using methodological naturalism, testability, consistency with established knowledge, and parsimony. The paper examines the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Hongju Liu
preprint
Contemporary theories of consciousness increasingly appeal to intrinsic causal organization, counterfactual structure, or relational phenomenal structure. Yet a prior question remains insufficiently separated from these proposals: **which realized physical processes are eligible to contribute to the organization of a present experience at a particular episode?** We introduce a token-level...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Andrea Vittorini
preprint
This hypothesis and perspective article proposes that dosing schedule should be treated as an independent pharmacological variable in psilocybin microdosing research. Existing controlled studies relevant to depression and mood have predominantly used intermittent schedules. The first dedicated randomized trial in major depressive disorder used 2 mg psilocybin once weekly and did not demonstrate...
Global Journal of Medical Research
September 26, 2026
Serigne Abdou Aziz Fall, A. Diop, N. M. Gaye et al.
Recreational misuse of nitrous oxide, a laughing gas, has increased sharply among young adults in recent years. This misuse can lead to multiple complications affecting several organs, including the central and peripheral nervous systems. Spinal cord and peripheral nervous system disorders are among the neurological complications most often due to vitamin B12 deficiency. We report the case of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 26, 2026
Douwe Fennema
preprint
Abstract During wakefulness, experience continually changes the functional organization of neural networks. Repetition, attention, emotional significance, and other forms of experience-dependent activation can affect the relative strength of synaptic relationships (Hebb, 1949; Bliss & Lømo, 1973; Dudek & Bear, 1992). During sleep, direct coupling to external sensory input and behavioral output...
Chaos Solitons & Fractals
September 25, 2026
Pushpendra Singh, Stuart Hameroff, Anirban Bandyopadhyay
We develop a nonlinear-systems framework in which a multiscale resonance chain is represented as a finite polyatomic clock network with geometry-dependent synchronization. The model is motivated by soft condensed biological matter, with emphasis on microtubule-associated dielectric, aromatic, and cavity-like structures. Using a Sakaguchi–Kuramoto-type network, we introduce curvature...
arXiv Preprint Archive
September 25, 2026
Tetiana Grinberg, Katrina Schleisman, Patryk Laurent et al.
preprint
A key challenge in machine consciousness research is translating theoretical models into computational-level implementations. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing a five-layer implementation architecture for the S3Q (Simulated, Situated, Structurally Coherent) theory of consciousness. Rather than introducing novel formalisms, the architecture composes published computational...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
September 25, 2026
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Redding, Emily Amador
Tobacco use remains a leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Although several pharmacotherapies and behavioral treatments for tobacco use disorder (TUD) exist, their overall efficacy is modest, underscoring the need for innovative treatment approaches. Ketamine, a rapid-acting glutamate receptor antagonist with neuroplasticity-enhancing properties, has shown promise in the...
Mindfulness
September 25, 2026
K. Asli Basoglu, Dan Stone
Objectives: Financial well-being requires appropriate risk choices. We investigated the effects of alternative mindfulness practices and task motivation quality on financial risk-taking. Method: We explored these issues in four studies: (1) examining the effects of interruptions on risk-taking (study 1, n = 125); (2) introducing “financial” mindfulness (study 2, n = 140); (3) comparing...