Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
January 30, 2018
Friederike Gundel, Johanna Von Spee, Sabrina Schneider et al.
Mindfulness meditation as a therapeutic intervention has been shown to have positive effects on psychological problems such as depression, pain or anxiety disorders. In this study, we used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to detect differences in hemodynamic responses of meditation experts (14 participants) and a control group (16 participants) in a resting and a mindfulness...
Behavioural Brain Research
January 15, 2018
Hilary A Marusak, Farrah Elrahal, Craig A Peters et al.
Interventions that promote mindfulness consistently show salutary effects on cognition and emotional wellbeing in adults, and more recently, in children and adolescents. However, we lack understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying mindfulness in youth that should allow for more judicious application of these interventions in clinical and educational settings. Using multi-echo...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Zhiyong Zhao, Xuzhou Li, Guoxun Feng et al.
Although the default mode network (DMN) is known to be abnormal in schizophrenia (SZ) patients with auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), it is still unclear whether AVHs that occur in SZ are associated with certain information flow in the DMN. This study collected resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 28 first-episode, drug-naïve SZ patients with AVHs, 20 SZ patients...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Andreas A Ioannides
Neurofeedback has been around for half a century, but despite some promising results it is not yet widely appreciated. Recently, some of the concerns about neurofeedback have been addressed with functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography adding their contributions to the long history of neurofeedback with electroencephalography. Attempts to address other concerns related...
Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
2018
Dejan Stevanovic, Leposava Brajkovic, Madhur Kumar Srivastava et al.
Accumulated evidence indicates that exposure to trauma is associated with the development of cognitive impairments and psychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents. In this case study of a female adolescent of 17 years, we aimed to evaluate how cortical positron emission tomography (PET) abnormalities relate to psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) dissociative state, post-traumatic...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Raphael Vallat, Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub, Alain Nicolas et al.
Recent findings indicate that dream recall frequency (DRF) is associated with neurophysiological traits, and notably the regional cerebral blood flow at rest within the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). To test whether, such physiological traits are rooted in anatomical specificities, we used voxel-based morphometry to compare the white matter and gray...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Antonio Alcaro, Stefano Carta
Recent neuro-psychoanalytic literature has emphasized the view that our subjective identity rests on ancient subcortical neuro-psychic processes expressing unthinking forms of experience, which are "affectively intense without being known" (Solms and Panksepp, 2012). Devoid of internal representations, the emotional states of our "core-Self" (Panksepp, 1998b) are entirely "projected" towards...
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)
2018
Louis-David Lord
To survive in an ever-changing environment, the brain must seamlessly integrate a rich stream of incoming information into coherent internal representations that can then be used to efficiently plan for action. The brain must also balance its ability to integrate information with a complementary capacity to segregate information into modules which perform specialized computations in local...
Nature Human Behaviour
December 4, 2017
Vadim Axelrod, Geraint Rees, Moshe Bar
Self-generated cognitions, such as recalling personal memories or empathizing with others, are ubiquitous and essential for our lives. Such internal mental processing is ascribed to the Default Mode Network, a large network of the human brain, though the underlying neural and cognitive mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we tested the hypothesis that our mental experience is mediated by...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
September 28, 2017
Michael Winkelman
105 citations
Neuropharmacological effects of psychedelics have profound cognitive, emotional, and social effects that inspired the development of cultures and religions worldwide. Findings that psychedelics objectively and reliably produce mystical experiences press the question of the neuropharmacological mechanisms by which these highly significant experiences are produced by exogenous neurotransmitter...