Brain Sciences
March 13, 2023
M V Giulietti, Roberta Spatuzzi, Paolo Fabbietti et al.
Bachground In this study, we hypothesize that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) may improve well-being and the related outcomes in Alzheimer's dementia patients (AD-P) at an early stage. MBIs consist of the practice of consciously observing the psychic contents in the present moment (thoughts, sensations, feelings, and other events). This attention allows one to become aware of the psychic...
March 10, 2023
Michiel van Elk, Eiko I. Fried
30 citations
preprint
Research in the last decade has expressed considerable optimism about the clinical potential of psychedelics for the treatment of mental disorders. This optimism is reflected in a considerable increase in research papers, investments by pharmaceutical companies, patents, media coverage, as well as political and legislative changes. However, psychedelic science is facing serious challenges that...
March 10, 2023
Mika Turkia
4 citations
preprint
In medicine, psychedelics were initially considered as a tool for clinicians to understand psychotic states. Based on the presented case data, a reversal of that concept is proposed: psychedelics could be conceptualized as a tool for people chronically anxious and depressed since early childhood to understand ordinary states of mind (e.g. calmness, hopefulness, relaxation, and joy). The case...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
March 9, 2023
Alex Sielaff, Dylan E. Horner, Jeff Greenberg
3 citations
Prior research suggests that unique phenomenological experiences called “mystical-type experiences” (MTEs) have the potential to induce significant and persisting worldview changes. In this article, two studies add to this literature by using cross-sectional data from 837 and 1,086 participants, respectively, to investigate whether people who have had one of these experiences differ in...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
March 8, 2023
Carolina Fernandez Pujol, Elizabeth G. Blundon, Andrew R Dykstra
1 citation
preprint
How perception of sensory stimuli emerges from brain activity is a fundamental question of neuroscience. To date, two disparate lines of research have examined this question. On one hand, human neuroimaging studies have helped us understand the large-scale brain dynamics of perception. On the other hand, work in animal models (mice, typically) has led to fundamental insight into the micro-scale...
March 7, 2023
Sarah R. Kamens, Frederick J. Wertz
Chapter 3 describes the importation, starting in the early 20th century, of phenomenological alternatives into the predominant psychiatric discourse on schizophrenia. One of the earliest to import phenomenology into psychosis research was Swiss-German psychiatrist Karl Jaspers, who, influenced by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, described an intersubjective impasse as the essence of...
International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP
March 7, 2023
Steven C Hayes, Stefan G Hofmann
Background/objective: Human consciousness is arguably unique, and its features are hard to explain. Continuous and discrete accounts of consciousness are commonly viewed as incompatible, but both have limitations. Continuous accounts cannot readily account for what appears to be unique about human consciousness; discrete accounts have a hard time explaining how human consciousness could have...
European Journal of Theology and Philosophy
March 6, 2023
Dominique J. Persoons, Jette I. Bryde
For Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, the Unconscious is characterized by the fact that it is born from the repression of impulses. For Carl Jung, on the other hand, the Unconscious is made up of everything that is not conscious. According to Jung: “It is inherent to reality and to the communication of the conscious with the Unconscious, and allows the becoming of the individual”. He...
March 6, 2023
Claudia Picard-Deland, Giulio Bernardi, Lisa Genzel et al.
2 citations
preprint
Newly encoded memory traces are spontaneously reactivated during sleep. Since their discovery in the 1990s, these memory reactivations have been discussed as a potential neural basis for dream experiences. New results from animal and human research, as well as the rapidly growing field of sleep and dream engineering, provide essential insights into this question, revealing both strong parallels...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
Pierre A Geoffroy, Rodolphe Borand, Marine Ambar Akkaoui et al.
Introduction Sleep and circadian markers are of increasingly growing interest to help better predicting suicide. Indeed, specific sleep disorders and circadian rhythm disorders have been associated to suicidal behaviors, and the most replicated findings are insomnia and nightmares. Nevertheless, these interesting preliminary studies did not examine the chronology and trajectories of these dream...