Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
October 9, 2026
Amir Jahanian Najafabadi, Matthew R Longo, Roman Liepelt
Two fundamental aspects of research on bodily self-consciousness, agency and body ownership, have recently seen exponential growth. The seminal paper of Botvinick and Cohen in 1998 provided a vital psychophysical tool for studying the bodily self - the rubber hand illusion, in which one feels as if an external object becomes a part of one's body. Recent motor control views of ownership...
Surgical Neurology International
October 9, 2026
Andrea Garcia-Bitar, Eduardo Jesus Castañeda, José Rafael Buenrostro-Rangel et al.
Background: Neurosurgical patients carry a high and frequently undertreated burden of psychological suffering, acute and chronic pain, and neurological deficits amenable to recovery. The resurgence of psychedelic research has produced relevant evidence in adjacent fields, but its applicability to neurosurgery has not been systematized. This review synthesizes that evidence across prevention,...
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
October 6, 2026
Chad Collyer, Gia Han Le, Maryam Hassan et al.
Short-acting tryptamine psychedelics are emerging as candidate psychiatric therapeutics with pharmacological profiles that may offer practical advantages over longer-acting psychedelics. N,N-dimethyltryptamine (N,N-DMT) and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) differ in pharmacokinetic, receptor, and phenomenological properties, while zalsupindole is a putatively non-hallucinogenic...
Issues in Mental Health Nursing
October 5, 2026
JoEllen Schimmels, Madison Nobbs
As interest in psychedelic-assisted therapies grows ahead of regulatory standardization, mental health nursing stands at a critical clinical and professional inflection point. This state-of-the-science review examines psychedelic-assisted therapies through a mental health nursing lens and advocates for the formal recognition of psychedelic nursing as a specialty with defined competencies,...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
October 4, 2026
Alexis Angel Martini
preprint
Le penthos — pratique contemplative de contrition profonde attestée dans la tradition patristique grecque des IVe-VIIe siècles — a traditionnellement été étudié comme phénomène purement théologique ou, alternativement, comme pathologie émotionnelle. Cet article propose une intégration épistémologiquement rigoureuse du penthos avec les données contemporaines de neurosciences affectives. L'auteur...
Molecular Psychiatry
October 3, 2026
Xiubo Du, Feiyuan Peng, Xiaohui Wang
Disorders of consciousness (DoC), including coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (also known as vegetative state), and minimally conscious state, represent profound disruptions in awareness and responsiveness due to severe brain injury, with limited therapeutic options available. Recent advancements in neuroimaging have improved our ability to detect residual brain activity in DoC patients,...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
October 1, 2026
Andrea Serino
The space surrounding the body where physical interactions with external stimuli occur is referred to as peripersonal space (PPS). Traditionally conceived as a spatial construct, PPS is better understood as a neural representation that integrates bodily inputs with external cues to predict body-object interactions. After summarizing its multisensory, motor, and plastic properties, this review...
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
October 1, 2026
A. Purcell, Daniel L. Morris, Jahred Rosa-Sullivan et al.
Objective: Over the past 60 years, contemplative practices have been shown to alleviate certain mental health symptoms. Humans spend approximately one third of their lives asleep, yet there is limited scientific investigation of the benefit of performing contemplative exercises during sleep. Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga (TBDY) is a contemplative practice where dreamers perform mental exercises...
Psychedelics
October 1, 2026
David S. Mathai, Brian Pilecki, Hadi Zaki et al.
In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a patented formulation and delivery method of esketamine, the S-enantiomer of ketamine, for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). While ketamine-based treatments share similarities with serotonin 2 A receptor-mediated “classic psychedelics” like psilocybin regarding subjective drug effects and stimulation of...
Torture Journal
October 1, 2026
John Hawkins
Debate about interrogational torture still returns to the ticking-bomb scenario, despite the weight of evidence that it neither works nor withstands moral scrutiny. The post-9/11 record, from Abu Ghraib to the CIA black sites, already marked a decisive shift toward psychological forms of coercion. The technologies now emerging make a different kind of coercion possible. This paper argues that...