Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Skylar Smith
preprint
Contemporary theories of consciousness privilege recurrent processing, global availability, integrated causal structure, higher-order representation, predictive world modeling, viability-weighted control, and other mechanisms. Active Self-Presence (ASP) asks whether at least some of these mechanisms are better understood not as rival phenomenal causes at the same explanatory level, but as...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 28, 2026
Alessio Matiz, Sara Sorella, Giuseppe Pagnoni et al.
Introduction Although meditation practice encompasses both intrapersonal and interpersonal dimensions, the differential effects of individual versus group meditation settings (IS vs. GS) remain largely unexplored. This study aimed to reduce this gap by comparing the effects of a mindfulness meditation session performed in the two settings, focusing in particular on mind-wandering (MW) dynamics....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Marcel Krüger
preprint
This conceptual paper examines whether the long-term transition toward interstellar civilization may require not only more capable spacecraft, but a transformation of the traveler itself. Human intelligence emerged in biological organisms adapted to terrestrial conditions. Rather than assuming that this biological form remains fixed indefinitely, the paper explores possible transitions from...
Neurochemical Research
August 27, 2026
Kazutoshi Yonemura, Nobue Kitanaka, Kazuo Tomita et al.
Cannabis, widely used for both medical and non-medical purposes, primarily contains Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Δ9-THC is the main driver of cannabis abuse and of psychological and physical dependence, whereas CBD has limited abuse potential and is even being investigated as a treatment for cannabis use disorder and other conditions. This review aims to clarify how...
Nursing Edição Brasileira
August 27, 2026
O uso de Cannabis sativa tem crescido globalmente, acompanhado por um aumento significativo na concentração de delta-9-tetrahidrocanabinol (THC) nos produtos disponíveis no mercado. Esta revisão sistemática teve como objetivo analisar a associação entre a exposição a altas concentrações de THC, a precocidade no início do uso e o desenvolvimento de quadros psicóticos. A literatura demonstra uma...
Nature Communications
August 27, 2026
Chenchen Song, Tinya Chang, Tobias Buchborn et al.
Psilocybin, a psychoactive compound contained in certain mushrooms, can provoke profound psychedelic experiences and also exerts established and controversial therapeutic efficacy in clinical depression and other neuropsychiatric conditions respectively. Here we report that a single systemic administration of the serotonergic psychedelic psilocybin can durably promote social behaviour in the...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 26, 2026
Obinna O. Ike, Ebele Evelyn Nnadozie, Elisha John Igwe
Introduction: Mental health challenges among bank employees represent a growing public health concern with substantial individual and organizational consequences. Guided by the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and Emotion Regulation Theory, this study examined the mediating role of emotional intelligence (EI) in the relationships between workplace stress, trait mindfulness, and person-job fit...
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
August 26, 2026
Martin Pham, Sonia Odutola, Hrishikesh Pable et al.
The triple network model has become a widely adopted framework for studying large-scale brain organization in basic and clinical neuroscience; however, accumulating evidence complicates this taxonomy. The default mode network, once labelled "task-negative", is now recognized as dynamically engaged across both internally directed and task-related processes. The salience network, often described...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
August 26, 2026
David Cota
Current AI systems can exhibit impressive performance while remaining existentially discontinuous: in many session-bound deployments, they are instantiated, reset, and redeployed without an individual history that constrains future operation. Under this account, temporal continuity is a constitutive condition for robust consciousness-like individuation in artificial agents and therefore a...
Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience
August 26, 2026
Aisha Al-Saadawi, Muhammad Mahmoud Mohsen
The unconscious mind remains one of the most elusive frontiers in cognitive neuroscience, shaping perception, emotion, and behavior through neural processes that evade explicit awareness (Marcel, 1983; Goodale & Milner, 1992; Bargh & Chartrand, 1999; Baars, 1988; Kahneman, 2011). Despite substantial behavioral evidence for unconscious cognitive processing (Bechara et al., 1997; Naccache &...