Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
April 22, 2025
Irina Topchiy, Bernat Kocsis
Brain oscillations in different behavioral states are essential for cognition, and oscillopathies contribute to cognitive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric diseases. Cannabis-1 receptor (CB1-R) activation was reported to suppress theta and fast gamma activities in rats during waking exploration, and here, we show that cannabis fundamentally alters network activity during sleep as well. Prominent...
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...
Contemporary psychoanalysis
April 3, 2025
L. Domash, Rachel Shapiro
Abstract This article explores the liminality between life and death, suggests a collective longing to communicate with the departed, and addresses psycho-analysis’ struggle with the existential trauma of mortality. The author (LD) describes her attempt to communicate with someone who had died through her dreams. This is followed by a paranormal experience wherein the deceased person ‘visited’...
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,...
April 1, 2025
Bradley V. Vaughn, Nathan A. Walker
Abstract Parasomnias are undesirable or physical events that occur with sleep. These events occur out of non–rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and involve a variety of behaviors. In this chapter we will discuss the classification, key elements, and the underlying pathophysiology of parasomnias and then highlight the important distinguishing features of these...
International Journal of Homoeopathic Sciences
April 1, 2025
Laxmi Verma, Shobhana Shukla
The value of dreams as a means of gaining insight into a patient's mental and emotional condition is becoming more widely acknowledged in homeopathic therapy. The significance of dreams in comprehensive patient assessment and customized treatment is highlighted in this abstract, which examines the function of dreams in homeopathy. The foundation of homeopathy is treating the full person as...
South Atlantic Quarterly
April 1, 2025
Patricia Dailey
What kind of experience is “literary experience,” and what might it have in common with psychedelics? This essay exposes a poetics of experience embedded within psychedelics and shows its common ground with the literary space of a poem in the Middle Ages. While writers like Aldous Huxley have often appealed to the precursor of the medieval, this essay takes a different turn. By looking at the...
Cognitive Therapy and Research
March 29, 2025
Federico Seragnoli, Fabienne Picard, Gabriel Thorens et al.
4 citations
Abstract Purpose Despite the presence of mystical-type experiences in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT), an understanding of the cognitive processes involved is still lacking. Guided by theory and empirical research, we hypothesized a cognitive-grounded perspective based on current metacognition models to promote the understanding of the psychological processes involved in mystical-type...
McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal
March 25, 2025
Sasha Avrutsky, Elizaveta Solomonova
A traumatic event can profoundly affect individuals emotionally and physically, with trauma referring to the psychological response to such events. While most people recover over time, some struggle to process their experiences, leading to conditions such as anxiety, mood, and/or personality disorders. Ernest Hartmann’s concept of boundaries—developed in the context of personality differences...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
March 25, 2025
Sahej Samra, Hrayr Attarian, R. Malkani
Current treatments for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder are not always effective and can lead to dose-limited adverse events, and new treatments are needed for this condition. We present a case of a patient with treatment-refractory isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder who had a dramatic and sustained improvement in dream enactment behaviors using oral tinctures...