Bristol Research
August 1, 2026
Lucy Haun Eade
Focused attention (FA) meditation involves sustaining attention on a specific object while disengaging from distractions when they arise. Long-term practice has been linked to improved attentional regulation and structural brain changes, reflecting neuroplasticity. This study investigated whether a brief FA meditation could induce measurable functional changes in neural activity related to...
Adolescência e Saúde
August 1, 2026
M.Vinoth Kumar, B. Shalini, V. Subbulakshmi
Background: Declining academic performance among adolescents has emerged as a significant educational concern, associated with excessive internet use, poor attention regulation, and inadequate self-discipline. Nine-Centered Meditation, rooted in the Simplified kundalini Yoga tradition, offers a holistic intervention targeting cognitive enhancement and behavioral modification. This study...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 1, 2026
Gerd Leidig
preprint
Contemplative neuroscience has differentiated focused-attention, open-monitoring, constructive, and deconstructive practices, yet it still lacks an integrated account of how embodied events become self-defining, how the organization underlying them becomes experientially accessible, and how another mode of situated participation becomes possible. This article introduces Meditation at the Edge...
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
August 1, 2026
Fifteen-month drinking reductions in a randomized clinical trial of cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based treatments and a matched nontreatment-seeking community sample.
Psycho-Oncology
August 2026
Anna Baumeister, Lea Schuurmans, Lisa Borgmann et al.
Cancer patients often suffer from neurocognitive impairments due to cancer treatment, the cancer itself, and/or coping with the illness, significantly impairing quality of life and everyday functioning. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an online MBSR course regarding neurocognitive functioning and well-being of cancer patients. A total of 170 cancer patients with cognitive impairments...
Behavioural Brain Research
August 1, 2026
Alessandra Mara de Oliveira, Flavia R. Abe, Rafael G. Dos Santos et al.
Ibogaine has attracted increasing attention as a potential treatment for substance use disorders; however, its clinical application remains limited by well-documented cardiotoxicity, and its safety during early development is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the developmental cardiotoxic and neurobehavioral effects of ibogaine using zebrafish embryos and larvae as a translational model....
European Journal of Pharmacology
August 1, 2026
Erik Kaadt, Rolf Søkilde, Hanne Demant Garling et al.
Novel treatment strategies are needed to address treatment resistance and delayed onset of action in psychiatry. Psilocybin has shown promise as a treatment for major depressive disorder, but the molecular changes associated with its effects remain incompletely understood. In parallel, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in depression and in responses to antidepressant interventions. Here,...
The Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences
August 1, 2026
Peter Lugten
Living beings bring more order to the world, and are required by the second law of thermodynamics, to simultaneously produce more disorder through metabolic heat dissipation. Consciousness in living beings produces even more order, enhancing survival and reproduction, and incurs an entropy debt that must be paid separately, and non-metabolically, through heat dissipation produced by Landauer’s...
Suchttherapie
August 1, 2026
Yann David Kippe, Christopher Poppe, Dimitris Repantis et al.
Zusammenfassung Klassische Halluzinogene („Psychedelika“) wie Lysergsäurediethylamid (LSD), Psilocybin, N,N-Dimethyltryptamin (DMT) und 5-Methoxydimethyltryptamin (5-MeO-DMT) werden zurzeit wieder als potenzielle Behandlungsoptionen bei Substanzgebrauchsstörungen untersucht. Psychedelika entfalten ihre Wirkung über eine Aktivierung von serotonergen 5HT-2a Rezeptoren im zentralen Nervensystem,...
Journal of Sleep Research
August 1, 2026
Nicola De Pisapia, Erdem Taskiran, Stefano Mastino et al.
Lucid dreaming, defined as the experience of becoming aware of dreaming while dreaming, offers a unique window into a state of consciousness characterised by a blending of the sensory vividness of REM sleep with the self-awareness of wakefulness. While past functional imaging has shed light on the neural activity supporting lucid dreaming, the structural brain correlates of lucid dream...