Brain and Behavior
August 30, 2026
Waqar Husain, Achraf Ammar, Urwa‐Tul Wusqa et al.
BACKGROUND: Religious and spiritual practices are among the most ancient and universal human behaviors, yet their neurobiological substrates remain incompletely characterized. Neurotheology-the scientific study of the relationship between spiritual experience and brain function-has produced growing evidence that such practices generate measurable, systematic, and neuroplastic changes in brain...
Physical rehabilitation and recreational health technologies
August 30, 2026
Sukanya Rajinikanth, Prabhavathy Devi Narayanan Dass, Haripah Lawanis et al.
Purpose. Adolescent girls experience heightened psychological stress affecting academic performance. This study examined the differential effects of traditional yogic practices with and without OM chanting on anxiety, self-confidence, study skills, assertiveness, mindfulness, and academic performance. Materials & Methods. A randomised controlled trial was conducted with 180 adolescent girls...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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Phenomenology---the philosophy that describes experience from within---rebuilt European thought around consciousness's structures, and its century runs from Husserl's transcendental turn through Heidegger's being-in-the-world to Merleau-Ponty's embodiment. This article presents a narrative review of that tradition's canonical line: Husserl's 1913 Ideas I and 1931 Cartesian Meditations,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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The mind-body problem---how conscious experience relates to the physical brain---remains philosophy's sharpest unsolved boundary question. This article presents a narrative review of the positions that define the debate: Descartes's substance dualism, Ryle's category-mistake critique, the mind-brain identity theory of Smart, Putnam's multiple realizability and functionalism, Davidson's...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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The mind-body problem asks how mental phenomena---experience, intention, subjectivity---relate to physical processes, and its modern history runs from Descartes' dualism through identity theory's physicalism to the hard problem's contemporary revival. This article presents a narrative review of the debate's canonical line: Descartes' 1641 Meditations, Ryle's 1949 ghost-in-the-machine critique,...
Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi
August 29, 2026
Duygu Gök, Hidayet Suha Yüksel
This study explores the experiences of preservice physical education teachers regarding yoga practices. Designed as a case study, the research involved 25 preservice teachers selected through convenience sampling. For 12 weeks, participants engaged in a yoga program structured with breathwork, meditation, and physical movement. Data were collected via semi-structured individual interviews and...
Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling
August 29, 2026
Insil Song, Sujin Yun
Purpose: This study explored how adults who participated in a Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program experience self-compassion, and interpreted the meaning structure of that experience to reveal its underlying essence. Methods: Van Manen’s hermeneutic phenomenology was adopted. Data were collected from three adults who had completed a standard MSC program through individual written accounts and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 29, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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The problem of consciousness occupies a singular position in contemporary philosophy: universally acknowledged as difficult, unresolved in its central question, and productive of a technical literature whose positions are now sharply defined. This review synthesizes the development of the mind-body problem from the mid-twentieth-century critiques of empiricism to the present landscape of...
PsyArXiv
August 28, 2026
Bastian Jaeger, Stefan Leach, Matthew Zipple
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Consciousness and the capacity to experience affective states, such as pain, pleasure, fear, and hunger (i.e., sentience) are seen as key determinants of an individual’s moral status, a view that is shared by scientists, philosophers, and laypeople. Whether (and which) non-human animals are believed to possess these capacities can therefore have important consequences for how they are treated....
Neuroethics
August 28, 2026
De Miguel Beriain, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Francesca Tassinari et al.
Abstract The rapid advance of neurotechnology has produced a vibrant scholarly and legislative debate around neurorights — a proposed generation of human rights designed to protect mental privacy, cognitive liberty, mental integrity, and psychological continuity against the most threatening applications of neurotechnology. This article argues that the neurorights framework, while representing a...