Translational Psychiatry
February 27, 2024
Hanna M. Ollila, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Katri Kantojärvi et al.
18 citations
Nightmares are vivid, extended, and emotionally negative or negative dreams that awaken the dreamer. While sporadic nightmares and bad dreams are common and generally harmless, frequent nightmares often reflect underlying pathologies of emotional regulation. Indeed, insomnia, depression, anxiety, or alcohol use have been associated with nightmares in epidemiological and clinical studies....
bioRxiv Preprint Server
February 27, 2024
Ema Jugović, Marta Poyo Solanas, Beatrice De Gelder
2 citations
preprint
Traditionally, consciousness studies focus on domain general cognitive processes rather than on specific information reaching subjective awareness. The present study (N = 45) used visual masking and whole-body images to investigate whether the specific emotional expression as well as gender of the stimuli and of the participants impact awareness. Our results show that participants’ awareness...
International Immunopharmacology
February 23, 2024
Salma Laabi, Claire LeMmon, Callie Vogel et al.
16 citations
A decade of clinical research has indicated psilocybin's effectiveness in treating various neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression and substance abuse. The correlation between increased pro-inflammatory cytokines and the severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms, along with the known anti-inflammatory potential of some psychedelics, suggests an immunomodulatory role for psilocybin. This...
Indonesian Journal of Community Health Nursing
February 22, 2024
Ita Apriliyani, Rahmawati Arni Nur, Maryanto Maryanto
Introduction: Single-parent adolescents are often prone to depression. Depression itself is a natural disorder of feelings, emotions that a child or teenager can experience during the ransition from children to adults which is theresult of separation or loss of parents either due to divorce or death. Mindfulness can serve to increase one's sensitivity to understand current events. Method: This...
Journal of Education, Health and Sport
February 22, 2024
Krzysztof Marcinkowski, Agata Mazur, Magdalena Madera et al.
Introduction and purpose: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric condition following an extreme event that causes a near death of an involved individual. Since conventional treatments using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors do not consistently yield therapeutic success, alternative substances are being explored as potential solutions. This study aims to compile information...
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
February 16, 2024
Alison Knopf
A National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)‐funded study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence titled “National and Regional Trends in Seizures of Shrooms (Psilocybin) in the United States, 2017‐2022” reported a significant increase in law enforcement seizures of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms,” in the United States from January 2017 to December...
Neuroscience
February 16, 2024
Douglas Funk, Joseph Araujo, Malik Slassi et al.
11 citations
Psilocybin has received attention as a treatment for depression, stress disorders and drug and alcohol addiction. To help determine the mechanisms underlying its therapeutic effects, here we examined acute effects of a range of behaviourally relevant psilocybin doses (0.1-3 mg/kg SC) on regional expression of Fos, the protein product of the immediate early gene, c-fos in brain areas involved in...
Life
February 15, 2024
Oytun Aygün, Emily Mohr, Colin Duff et al.
8 citations
In the context of chronic pain management, opioid-based treatments have been heavily relied upon, raising concerns related to addiction and misuse. Non-pharmacological approaches, such as Mindfulness-Based Pain Management, offer alternative strategies. We conducted a mechanistic clinical study to investigate the impact of an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Pain Management intervention on chronic pain,...
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
February 15, 2024
Paloma C Frautschi, Ajay P Singh, Nicholas A Stowe et al.
5 citations
The neurobiological mechanisms underpinning psychiatric disorders such as treatment-resistant major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use disorders, remain unknown. Psychedelic compounds, such as psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine, have emerged as potential therapies for these disorders because of their hypothesized ability to induce...
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
February 14, 2024
Katarzyna Zajda
Contemporary Shuar shamanism is characterised by, on the one hand, its plasticity and its adaptability to new contests and, on the other hand, by heterogeneity of its clientele, which now includes an increasing number of Western patients. In the absence of a shared system of representations and with the necessity for an explanatory discourse, in these ‘neo-shamanic’ rituals inspired by New Age...