Nutrix JournalApril 22, 2026Rosyidah Alfitri, Rani Safitri, N. Keswara
Adolescents are vulnerable to mental health disorders resulting from excessive smartphone use, which can trigger stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as affect behavior and psychological well-being. This study examined the effectiveness of a combination of murottal Al-Qur’an therapy and meditation on the mental health of adolescents with smartphone addiction using a quasi-experimental...
Abstract Self-transcendent experiences (STEs) offer profound and beneficial shifts in perspective, yet remain largely inaccessible outside elite contemplative or pharmacological contexts. Although neural measures have advanced our understanding of these states, their cost and limited ecological validity restrict broader application. This study evaluates heart rate variability (HRV) amplitude, a...
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) programs have demonstrated benefits for psychological well-being, yet their neurophysiological mechanisms remain underexplored, particularly in naturalistic settings using portable electroencephalography (EEG). This study examined the effects of a six-week MSC program, Embracing Your Life (EYL), on stress response, brain activity, and self-compassion among Chinese...
Current accounts of affect in the philosophy of mind, affective neuroscience, and consciousness studies fall into three broad classes — phenomenological, functional, and eliminativist — each presupposing a shared prior assumption that none specifies: that the systems under analysis are bounded, persisting units whose affective states can be coherently analyzed. Adjacent traditions...
Abstract BackgroundIn the United States, the prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is projected to double over the next 30 years, with associated familial and societal costs estimated at US $1 trillion annually if current trends continue. Although pharmacological treatments of AD are showing promise, the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors, particularly during the preclinical phase of AD,...
The goal of this essay is to promote a non‐traditional physicalism for consciousness much as metaethical constructivisms are meant as naturalistic alternatives to traditional moral realism. The account on offer is based on a perspectival version of David Lewis's Humean “best‐system” account for scientific representation. On this version, suspect concepts are vindicated (from the perspective of...
Dear Editor, While there is a growing interest towards subconscious phenomena globally, experiences like lucid dreaming are under-researched in South Asia and remain largely unrecognized in Pakistan’s academic and clinical settings despite their widely acknowledged psychological significance. International studies have examined the association between lucid dreaming and psychopathology with...
On the verge of the AI Age—the Mechanocene—we tend to reproduce past narratives where humans are replaced by machines. This leads us to identifying skills and activities that will not be automated by AI soon, and prepare both current and future generations for those ‘safe’ occupations. However, there is the risk that the set of non-automatable tasks becomes empty sooner than expected, preparing...
This record contains the full replication package for "Default Mode Network Geometry Emerges in Language Model Residual Streams From Next-Token Prediction on Agentive Text: A Universal Topological Signature Across 10 Architectures" (Alieksieienko, 2026). We report that the geometric topology of epistemic representations in transformer language model residual streams mirrors the functional...
Organization TheoryApril 18, 2026Todd H. Chiles, Brett Crawford, Sara R. S. T. A. Elias
We develop a spiritual perspective on the entrepreneurial imagination, addressing imagined futures in this “conversations and controversies” section on entrepreneurial futures. Specifically, we blend heterodox ideas from various yoga traditions, experiential sources of religion, and the work of poet-mystic William Blake. These diverse sources echo related ideas in a coherent way—uniquely...