Animal Sentience
August 3, 2026
Brian Key, Deborah J Brown
Mikhalevich & Powell argue that the exclusion of the vast majority of arthropods from moral standing is unwarranted, particularly given the purported evidence for cognition and sentience in these organisms. The implied association between consciousness and moral standing is questionable and their assumption that rich forms of cognition and flexible behavior are dependent on phenomenal...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 3, 2026
Maitri Patel, Navin Kumar
Spiritual bypassing, referred to as the use of spiritual beliefs or practices to avoid unresolved psychological distress, is well represented in the etic (researcher- or outsider-derived) literature but has not previously been examined through a qualitative synthesis centered on lived experiences. This meta-ethnography addresses that gap. Using Noblit and Hare’s seven-phase approach alongside...
San José State University ScholarWorks
August 2, 2026
Soo Lam Wong
Fan Zhen’s 范缜 “Shen-Mie-Lun 神灭论” can be read as a debate between a physicalist and a dualist in the philosophy of mind. Many of Fan’s arguments found in the “Shen-Mie-Lun” correspond to contemporary physicalism in Western analytic philosophy. My aim in this essay is to bring Fan's “Shen-Mie-Lun” into conversation with contemporary physicalism in the following way: (1) offer an outline of Fan’s...
Comparative Philosophy An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy
August 2, 2026
Renée Snow
This paper argues that functional organization alone is not sufficient for phenomenal consciousness or the existence of a unified subject of experience. While many contemporary accounts of artificial consciousness assume that replicating the causal or computational structure of the brain would be sufficient for subjective experience, this paper identifies a deeper constraint: consciousness...
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
August 1, 2026
Hielke Bosma
Rehabilitation care concerns not only the restoration of function but also how persons live through disruption. Injury and illness may bring loss, uncertainty, altered dependence, changed self-understanding, and a changed horizon of life. Concepts such as coping and resilience capture important aspects of adaptation but do not fully clarify the inner work involved in bearing and inhabiting such...
Brain Research Bulletin
August 1, 2026
Barkha J. Yadav-Samudrala, Laith E. Sawaqed, Caitlin J. Huguely Wilkinson et al.
While combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) has transitioned HIV-1 into a manageable chronic condition, it fails to eradicate latent viral reservoirs in the central nervous system (CNS) that drive persistent neuroinflammation and synaptodendritic injury. Consequently, people living with human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) often utilize cannabis to manage neurological symptoms, yet the...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
August 1, 2026
Anna Willert, Laura Von Hardenberg, Laura Holzner et al.
ABSTRACT Background Despite the high prevalence of comorbid cannabis use at first onset of psychotic symptoms, high transition rates from cannabis‐induced psychosis to schizophreniform psychoses and bipolar disorder, and evidence of cannabis use as a risk factor in developing primary psychosis, only a few studies have addressed the difficulties in differential diagnosis focusing on the early...
Neuropharmacology
August 1, 2026
G. S. Marcotto, M. Borghetti, J. Bitraj et al.
Electrical stimulation (ES) is emerging as a non-pharmacological neuromodulation strategy, but its direct impact on human dopaminergic neurons and its relationship to rapid-acting antidepressant mechanisms remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate whether brief biphasic low-frequency low-intensity (LF-LI) ES can induce structural and molecular plasticity in human induced pluripotent stem...
Alpha psychiatry
August 2026
Lei Yang, Qiuyu Zhang, Ying Zhang et al.
Ketamine may have antidepressant and anti-suicidal effects. However, the mechanism underlying ketamine-mediated improvement in cognitive impairment in patients with depression remains unclear. To improve patient cognition in depression using molecular docking and network pharmacology, we examined ketamine's key targets and identified its molecular mechanisms. To gain target information about...
Adolescência e Saúde
August 1, 2026
Lakhimi Gogoi, Nirmali Gogoi, Dr.Dhanjita Deka et al.
Adolescent mental health refers to the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of individuals between 10 and 19 years of age. This developmental stage is characterized by rapid physical growth, identity formation, emotional changes, and social pressures, making mental health especially vulnerable. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescent mental health is critically...