PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 8, 2026
Nigel D’sa
preprint
Human spaceflight has been evaluated largely through physiological endurance and operational success. A more fundamental question has gone untested: whether cognition remains viable when the environmental conditions that have always accompanied human life are radically altered. This article argues, from ecological-enactive theories of cognition, that human cognition is constituted through...
Canadian Journal of Addiction
August 7, 2026
Lucy Doan, Leisha Hawker, Caroline Racz
ABSTRACT Background: Recreational nitrous oxide use is increasing, causing functional vitamin B 12 deficiency and neurological complications that may be overlooked in complex clinical presentations. Case presentation: A 26-year-old male with alcohol use disorder presented with progressive lower-extremity weakness, peripheral paresthesias, and nocturnal urinary incontinence during alcohol...
Pharmaceuticals
August 7, 2026
Ouwais Aljabasini, Niki Tagkalidou, Martalu D. Pazos et al.
Background/Objectives: Synthetic cathinones are a rapidly evolving class of new psychoactive substances whose structural diversity complicates toxicological risk assessment. Methylenedioxy cathinones occupy a pharmacological space between MDMA-like entactogens and more dopaminergic stimulant cathinones, but their direct cardiac liabilities remain poorly characterized. This study aimed to...
Asclepius International Journal of Scientific Health Science
August 7, 2026
Arthur Gomes Ferreira
A dependência da nicotina representa um dos principais desafios da saúde pública mundial, sendo responsável por elevadas taxas de morbimortalidade e associada ao desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares, respiratórias e neoplásicas. Embora existam diferentes estratégias terapêuticas para a cessação do tabagismo, as elevadas taxas de recaída evidenciam a necessidade de novas abordagens...
bioRxiv
August 6, 2026
Mizuki Yamamoto, Hiroto Inoue, Kazuko Hayashi et al.
preprint
Background and Purpose Serotonergic psychedelics affect behavior and physiology, but the relationships among these effects remain poorly understood. In rodents, the head-twitch response is used as a measure of psychedelic-like activity, yet it does not capture changes in physiological state or the performance of learned behaviors. Here, we investigated the acute effects of the 5-HT2A receptor...
Frontiers in Public Health
August 6, 2026
R. Cameron Wolf, Rick Lambert, Sara Shoar et al.
Use of psychedelic substances is increasing across unregulated, state-regulated, research, ceremonial/religious, and medical settings in the United States. Concurrently, a growing body of clinical research signals the potential for therapeutic applications for specific psychedelics in the treatment of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, and other health...
Otago University Research Archive
August 4, 2026
Caitlin Elaine Thorburn
While cannabis has been reported to have many therapeutic utilisations, minimal studies have explored the use behaviours of individuals with ADHD in New Zealand. Due to the considerably high rates of cannabis use within this population, it is necessary that this gap in the literature is explored. Of the analyses that have been conducted, it appears that the self-medication hypothesis may...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
August 4, 2026
Mindfulness Induction Reduces Cue-Induced Craving in Female Methamphetamine Users.
August 3, 2026
David Stephen Calonne
Abstract This chapter explores the ways Sonny Rollins embarked on a lifelong quest for the sacred through his studies of Rosicrucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Rollins formed close friendships with Thelonious Monk and Don Cherry and the chapter explores these friendships as well. Rollins—like several jazz musicians—struggled with drug addiction, and the chapter discusses his recovery as well...
Animal Sentience
August 3, 2026
Bjørn Grinde
Carolyn Ristau has done a fine job summarizing the work and life of the zoologist Donald Griffin. Most scientists now accept the existence of animal sentience, but identifying which species possess consciousness remains controversial. Griffin defined consciousness as "the subjective state of feeling or thinking about objects and events.” Nonconscious processes are faster and more...