Brain Communications
2024
Ashley Ghaw, Alisha Chunduri, Arnold Chang et al.
13 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide is a hallucinogen with complex neurobiological and behavioural effects. This is the first study to use MRI to follow functional changes in brain activity in response to different doses of lysergic acid diethylamide in fully awake, drug-naive rats. We hypothesized that lysergic acid diethylamide would show a dose-dependent increase in activity in the prefrontal cortex...
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
2024
Baeleigh VanderZwaag, Albert Garcia‐romeu, Mauricio A. García-barrera
9 citations
Background: Psychedelics are receiving growing interest among clinical researchers for their effects on mood and cognition. Psilocybin is one of the most widely studied classic psychedelics which has shown good safety and clinical benefit for major depression and substance use disorders. Athletes frequently sustain concussions and often experience myriad symptoms, including cognitive and mood...
Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling
December 31, 2023
Wonki Baek
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of Buddhist meditation poetry produced on the basis of forests and meditation on mental and physical healing. Forests are the source and home of life that mankind has enjoyed so far. So nature[forest] has the power of wisdom to bring man back to his true self. Especially, various phytoncides emitted from the forest, and the appearance and...
Journal of Sleep Medicine
December 31, 2023
Yu-Jin Kang, Su-Hyun Han
Objectives: We aimed to examine dream recall and nightmare distress in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and identify the associating factors.Methods: This cross-sectional study retrospectively enrolled adult participants (age ≥18 years) with newly diagnosed OSA that was confirmed by full-night polysomnography between 2016 and 2022. Dreaming components were assessed using a nine-item...
Research Review Journal of Social Science
December 31, 2023
Sandip Kumar Pati
This essay explores the Advaita Vedānta's concept of Māyā as cosmic ignorance and its connection to avidyā, emphasizing how these concepts explain reality, perception, and emancipation. It contends that Māyā is a sophisticated philosophical theory that explains the appearance of plurality in a fundamentally non-dual world rather than just an illusion. Avidyā functions at the individual level as...
December 30, 2023
Stefano Poletti, Prisca R. Bauer, Antoine Lutz
preprint
Objective: Worldviews (WVs) are the set of beliefs that underlie the way we conceive of reality and selfhood. Buddhist meditation allegedly leads to long-lasting changes in WVs and trait-like neurophysiological and behavioral differences between novice and expert meditators support this possibility. Yet, this claim has not yet been fully tested and there is still no qualitative evidence. The...
Philosophies
December 30, 2023
Stefan Paulus
1 citation
Recent developments regarding the pharmacology of psychoactive substances are significant for treating depressions or opioid addictions. Current theories, hypotheses, and models of drug effects assume a cause–effect narrative, which is based on a stimulus/response mechanism. These narratives prioritize effects rather than conscious experiences. In this sense, drug experiences are quickly...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
December 29, 2023
Iván Mindlin, Rubén Herzog, Laouen Belloli et al.
7 citations
preprint
Disorders of consciousness (DoC) are a challenging and complex group of neurological conditions characterised by absent or impaired awareness. The current range of therapeutic options for DoC patients is limited, offering few non-invasive pharmacological alternatives. This situation has sprung a growing interest in the development of novel treatments, such as the proposal to study the efficacy...
Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology
December 29, 2023
Tianran Liu
Mental illness is a hot topic of concern worldwide. The psilocybin has great potential in the treatment of mental disorders, but there is still a research gap on whether it can truly be applied in the treatment of mental disorders. Therefore, this research explores the feasibility of psilocybin’s true application in the treatment of mental disorders by collecting relevant literature on its...
Health of Man
December 28, 2023
Oksana Kobzar, Galyna Pyliagina
The objective: to analyze the features of the course of depersonalization-derealization disorder (DDD) in men on the example of a clinical case. Materials and methods. The pilot study included 51 individuals, namely: 8 (15.7%) men and 43 (84.3%) women, with average age 21 years (SD=3.66) and 23.86 years (SD=6.88), respectively. Study participants had criteria for DDD according to the...