Gyanshauryam International Scientific Refereed Research Journal
September 20, 2026
Surbhi Agrawal
In the modern lifestyle, human health is being adversely affectedboth physically and mentallyby constantly rising mental stress, a sedentary routine, and work-related pressure. Against this backdrop, 'Yoga Nidra' from the Indian yogic tradition has emerged as a highly effective psychosomatic technique, regarded by Swami Satyananda Saraswati as being equivalent to Pratyahara. This practice...
Arts
September 19, 2026
Scott Thomas Carter
The TransformativeArts Framework (TAF) holds that the neural systems recruited to make and perceive art are not peripheral modules but expressions of the core architecture of thought. This essay asks whether contemporary neuroscience supports that claim, and it identifies three observations that the predictive-processing literature on the arts has not yet made. Peer-reviewed neuroscience from...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 18, 2026
Suzana Mat Isa, Aini Ismafairus Abd Hamid, Muhamad Zabidi Ahmad et al.
), further studies are needed to measure its neurobiological impacts. This exploratory study employed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) to examine alterations in brain activity and functional connectivity (FC) among kratom users. A total of 43 respondents were recruited (22 regular kratom users and 21 healthy controls). RS-fMRI data were acquired using a 1.5T GE...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
September 17, 2026
Olivier Brown, Andra M. Smith, Molly Cairncross et al.
Rationale Concussion disrupts brain connectivity, and effective treatments remain limited. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) may influence functional connectivity (FC) of networks affected by concussion, but pediatric trials are lacking. This study investigated whether an app-delivered MBI produced greater FC changes than a sham condition across the default mode (DMN), salience (SN), and...
September 16, 2026
Yifan Ren, Huyen Ngoc Pham, Xiong Xiong et al.
preprint
Background: Hallucinations span psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, yet unified neurobiological or consciousness-based explanations remain uncertain. Functional connectivity (FC) provides a network-level view with highly heterogeneous findings.Methods: Following PRISMA, we included studies with FC of hallucinations to ask whether it is sensitive to hallucinations, can distinguish...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 16, 2026
Mart Wijn
preprint
Abstract This paper introduces a simple distinction that may change how we think about consciousness. It proposes that human beings operate in two fundamentally different modes. Type 1 is direct awareness — experiencing reality without commentary. Type 2 is narrative consciousness — the continuous stream of thinking, interpreting, and self-referencing that most adults experience as their normal...
Acta Marisiensis Philologia
September 15, 2026
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Jan de Maere
This article examines the intersection of Emil Cioran’s phenomenology of temporal decay, Oswald Spengler’s morphological theory of cultural decline, and contemporary neuroaesthetic research grounded in predictive processing and embodied cognition. While both Cioran and Spengler share an intuition of civilisational exhaustion, they articulate decline through distinct epistemological frameworks:...
Psychedelic Medicine
September 14, 2026
Vasileios Chytas, Georgios Tsimploulis, Dimitrios Chytas
Purpose: Ketamine and classic psychedelics have recently gained increased scientific interest regarding their role in pain management, while there is evidence that pain induces neural connectivity changes. We performed a scoping review to investigate the correlation of ketamine and classic psychedelics with pain-related neural connectivity, aiming to find potential therapeutic targets for these...
Communications medicine
September 10, 2026
Sipeng Zhu, Xiaoyu Xu, Qiheng He et al.
Consciousness is hypothesized to emerge from a sophisticated balance between functional integration and segregation across large-scale brain networks. However, how these topological properties are disrupted in disorders of consciousness (DoC), and whether they can predict long-term recovery, remain to be established. Using resting-state functional MRI and graph-theoretical modeling in patients...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
September 10, 2026
Xizhen Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Haiyu Zhang et al.
Depression, characterized by persistent low mood and anhedonia, represents a prevalent affective disorder imposing substantial medical and economic burdens. Current first-line antidepressants are limited by delayed onset and treatment resistance. Psilocybin (PSI) has re-emerged as a promising therapeutic agent with rapid, sustained antidepressant effects. This systematic review was conducted...