Doxa
August 29, 2025
D. Lyashenko
The article proposes a set of methodological principles necessary for constructing a coherent and comprehensive systemic account of consciousness. It is argued that existing approaches (neurobiological, computational, phenomenological, or cultural) cannot converge without a meta-theoretical framework capable of coordinating heterogeneous data and avoiding entrenched metaphysical assumptions....
ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
August 29, 2025
Oliver Thorndike
1 citation
This paper explores the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration between science and the humanities, with a focus on recent advancements in psychedelic-assisted therapy. It provides an overview of key concepts in this emerging field and identifies research gaps that offer opportunities for interdisciplinary integration. Adopting a non-reductionist naturalist framework, the paper views...
August 29, 2025
Romesha Uduwawela
<p><strong>Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in certain mushrooms, has gained increasing attention for its potential therapeutic applications in mental health treatment. While clinical research highlights its efficacy in alleviating mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders, much remains to be known about the role of acute doses of psilocybin...
International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
August 27, 2025
Pallabi Mukherjee -, Ankita Sharma, Vinita Ramchandani et al.
The research paper uses bibliometric analysis to analyze worldwide trends of yoga and meditation research between the years 2010 and 2025. With citation and co-citation analysis, the paper establishes top authors, nations, and repeating patterns. Results reveal consistent growth in publications, highest between 2020–2022, spurred by post-COVID health consciousness and India's 2020 National...
PLoS One
August 27, 2025
Amy Kartar, Toru Horinouchi, Balázs Örzsik et al.
1 citation
The popularity of breathwork as a therapeutic tool for psychological distress is rapidly expanding. Breathwork practices that increase ventilatory rate or depth, facilitated by music, can evoke subjective experiential states analogous to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) evoked by psychedelic substances. These states include components such as euphoria, bliss, and perceptual differences....
medRxiv
August 27, 2025
Md. Shahidul Islam, Md Sakib Ibne Salam, Md Nahid Hasan
1 citation
preprint
A bstract Contemporary psychedelic research highlights the value of user experience reports, yet their verbose, subjective nature poses challenges for clinical utility. This is the first study to pioneer unsupervised automatic text summarization of psychedelic user experience reports, a domain where no human-annotated reference summaries exist. To address this gap, we developed a custom scoring...
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
August 26, 2025
Alexandra Martinez Matamoros, Yanire Sarai Davila Uriarte
Las ceremonias de ayahuasca en Pucallpa atraen a turistas nacionales e internacionales que buscan experiencias espirituales y de sanación guiados por chamanes en centros espirituales (CE). Actualmente, no se cuenta con información sobre la calidad de los servicios ni la seguridad que estos ofrecen a los participantes. Ello genera que la experiencia de toma de ayahuasca en estos lugares sea...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
August 26, 2025
S. Tumkaya, Bengü Yücens, Muhammet Gündüz et al.
Abstract Disruption of conscious access contributes to the advent of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia and could also explain lack of insight in other psychiatric disorders. In this study, we explored how insight and psychotic symptoms related to disruption of consciousness in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia, respectively. Patients with schizophrenia, and patients with...
Psychedelics
August 26, 2025
Harriet de Wit
Professor Harriet de Wit, a pioneering researcher in psychoactive drugs at the University of Chicago, shares her remarkable 45-year scientific journey in this illuminating Genomic Press Interview. As Director of the Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory and recipient of prestigious honors including the 2019 European Behavioral Pharmacology Society Distinguished Investigator Award, Dr. de Wit...
bioRxiv
August 24, 2025
Yinan Xu, C. Prat, Florian Sense et al.
preprint
Despite the importance of memories in everyday life and the progress made in understanding how they are encoded and retrieved, the neural processes by which declarative memories are maintained or forgotten remain elusive. Part of the problem is that it is empirically difficult to measure the rate at which memories fade, even between repeated presentations of the source of the memory. Without...