International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
August 24, 2025
Karthik Tatuskar
In recent years, psychological well-being has become a primary concern in adult mental health discourse, particularly due to the rising incidence of stress, anxiety, and emotional disturbances. Meditation has emerged as a widely accepted complementary practice, with Rajyoga meditation standing out for its spiritual and cognitive benefits. Unlike conventional meditation, Rajyoga involves...
npj Mental Health Research
August 23, 2025
Vaibhav Tripathi, Lakshmi Bhaskar, Chhaya Kharya et al.
The pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues across the world. The limited availability of mental health professionals is preventing many from seeking help, which highlights the need for easily available mental health care routines like yoga, breathing, and meditation. A breath-based meditation technique known as Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) harnesses the power of breath to induce deep...
Scientific Reports
August 23, 2025
Kalin Manooki, Mahdieh Gholami, Maryam Eslami et al.
3 citations
Schizophrenia is a severe chronic neuropsychiatric disorder with a wide-range of cognitive and mental deficits and different categories of symptoms including positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. In rodents, sub-chronic ketamine administration is a common method to induce a schizophrenia-like state. Olanzapine, an atypical antipsychotic medication, is used for the treatment and management...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 21, 2025
Xiaoqian Yu, Christine Vinci, Geoffrey F. Potts
Background: Attention regulation is crucial for mindfulness practice; however, the influence of baseline attention ability on mindfulness training outcomes remains underexplored. This study examined the effects of a brief mindfulness intervention on attention and investigated whether baseline inattention symptoms moderated these effects in meditation-naïve university students. Methods: This...
Neuropharmacology
August 21, 2025
James J Gattuso, Geraldine Kong, Bilgenur Bezcioglu et al.
7 citations
Psilocybin, a serotonergic compound that produces psychedelic effects primarily through activation of the 5-HT2A receptor, has shown promise in treating neuropsychiatric conditions, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, the effects of chronic psilocybin administration on gut function, microbiota, and behavioural phenotypes remain understudied. The present study investigated...
PsyArXiv
August 20, 2025
Deepanshu Tomar
preprint
The Bi-Interpretive Mind Framework (BIMF) introduces a dual-system model of human cognition and consciousness, positing the coexistence of two interdependent subsystems: the Primary Mind (logical, conscious, reality-testing) and the Secondary Mind (intuitive, unconscious, biologically interpretive). Subjective experience is conceptualized as emerging from the “interpretive handshake” between...
International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology
August 20, 2025
Ayushi Deora
Background: The interplay of spirituality and medicine in Buddhist India can be used as a paradigm platform that has been guiding the healing activities more than 2000 years. Understanding the ancient Ayurveda and combining it with Buddhism spiritual values have been the study of this research work toward their applicability in the contemporary field of healthcare. Aim: Examine the history of...
JMIR Mental Health
August 19, 2025
Alessandro Sparacio, Jonathan Nicholas Davies, Erin Lee et al.
Background: Fully decentralized self-administered mindfulness interventions show promise for stress reduction, but rigorous evaluations of their feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness using both self-report and physiological measures remain limited. In Singapore, where mental health concerns rank as the top health care priority (46%), ahead of cancer (38%) and stress-related issues...
Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology
August 19, 2025
Alice Caulfield, Elliot Hampsey, Allan H. Young
1. Classical psychedelics are gaining attention as potential treatments for a range of neuropsychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and addictions [1]. Psychedelics differ from tradi...
Pharmaceutical Science
August 19, 2025
Afshan Zeeshan Wasti
Psychedelics such as psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide upset the brain networks involved in self-awareness and emotion and may lead to altered perception, cognition, and social behaviour, although unsupervised use is still dangerous due to their unpredictable psychological and physiological effects. These drugs cause emotions to be amplified, the ego to dissolve, and sensory vividness...