Journal of Psychopharmacology
April 17, 2025
Artur Pałasz, Marta Pukowiec, Katarzyna Bogus et al.
Objective: Psychedelics are able to trigger highly intense and profound alterations in self-consciousness, perception, affective, and cognitive processes. Indeed, recent studies show that ketamine and psilocybin could be used as fast-acting antidepressants. However, the molecular and neurochemical mechanisms of these psychedelics and their actions at the level of diverse brain structures...
The Scientific Journal of Cosmointel
April 16, 2025
Mohammad Ali, Sara Torabi, Farid Semsarha
Various theories about Consciousness have been proposed, but there is no consensus definition within the scientific community. Taheri introduced the concept of T-Consciousness to differentiate his perspective from others. According to his theory, T-Consciousness is a non-physical entity and serves as the fundamental element of the universe, from which information, matter, and energy originate....
Journal of Neural Engineering
April 11, 2025
Rick Evertz, Andria Pelentritou, John Cormack et al.
Objective. Resting electroencephalographic activity is typically indistinguishable from a filtered linear random process across a diverse range of behavioural and pharmacological states, suggesting that the power spectral density of the resting electroencephalogram (EEG) can be modelled as the superposition of multiple, stochastically driven and independent, alpha band (8-13 Hz) relaxation...
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
April 10, 2025
Robert B. Kargbo
Psychedelics and AI modulate cognitive frameworks, disrupt rigid thought patterns, and enhance neuroplasticity, offering therapeutic potential for depression, PTSD, and addiction. Relaxing neural filters reveal altered states of consciousness, challenging perceptions of reality. This Viewpoint explores their neurobiological mechanisms and AI's role in augmenting psychiatric treatments.
Art&Sensorium
April 9, 2025
Francisco Prosdocimi, María Carolina Pacini
A experiência com a ayahuasca e estados não ordinários de consciência envolve visões simbólicas, acesso ao inconsciente e uma percepção alterada da realidade. Sua natureza metafísica desafia as categorias convencionais de linguagem e representação, sendo frequentemente descrita como inefável. Embora a arte, em qualquer contexto, possua um grau de inefabilidade, a arte visionária que busca...
Art&Sensorium
April 9, 2025
Matheus Moura Silva
Este artigo é um relato da pesquisa de doutorado defendida em 2018. Nela, busco compreender a relação entre histórias em quadrinhos e Arte Visionária. No Brasil, apesar de pouco conhecidos, há autores de quadrinhos renomados internacionalmente que são claramente visionários, como é o caso de Sergio Macedo e Alain Voss. Na pesquisa, foram analisados trabalhos de Moebius, Jim Woodring, Rick...
Journal of Eating Disorders
April 7, 2025
Dhanush Ammineni, Rebecca J. Park
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Obesity is a multifactorial disorder involving a behavioural aetiology in subsets of patients that traditional therapeutic approaches have failed to address. Drawing parallels with addiction, the rewarding aspects of a chronic energy-dense diet can compromise dopaminergic reward circuits, eventually causing individuals to become habitually responsive to food-related stimuli despite adverse...
Time and Mind
April 3, 2025
A. Skinner
ABSTRACT The structural similarity of animist ontologies across world regions hints at common underlying threads between them. This contribution examines the neurophenomenological context of animist experience, focusing on how a sense of consciousness and relationality can emerge as a primary feature of environmental experience rather than an imposed interpretation. While shamanic cosmologies...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 2, 2025
Luca Simione, Antonino Raffone, Morten Overgaard et al.
The study of consciousness spans a vast array of domains, including perceptual awareness, cognition and metacognition, executive control, selfhood, sleep and dreaming, emotional competence, and empathy. It concerns both healthy states (e.g., meditation, aging, spiritual experiences) and pathological conditions (e.g., epilepsy, neglect syndromes, locked-in syndrome, minimally conscious states,...
Religions
April 1, 2025
Zhu Cheng
Having adopted, appropriated, and altered Indian forms of Buddhism, various schools of Chinese Buddhist thought inherited and transformed essential orientations of both Buddhism and traditional Chinese philosophy insofar as it exhibits a tendency toward seeking universality in its understanding of the world. Within the works of prominent figures and schools such as Sengzhao and the Tiantai...