A complex systems perspective on psychedelic brain action

M Girn, FE Rosas, RE Daws, CL Gallen… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Recent findings suggesting the potential transdiagnostic efficacy of psychedelic-assisted
therapy have fostered the need to deepen our understanding of psychedelic brain action …

Human brain effects of DMT assessed via EEG-fMRI

C Timmermann, L Roseman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Psychedelics have attracted medical interest, but their effects on human brain function are
incompletely understood. In a comprehensive, within-subjects, placebo-controlled design …

Exploring mechanisms of psychedelic action using neuroimaging

D Erritzoe, C Timmermann, K Godfrey… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Modern psychedelic research and clinical development is at a crucial inflection point, with
great potential for the treatment of many mental illnesses demonstrated but significant …

Investigation of advanced mindfulness meditation “cessation” experiences using EEG spectral analysis in an intensively sampled case study

A Chowdhury, R van Lutterveld, RE Laukkonen… - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Mindfulness meditation is a contemplative practice informed by Buddhism that targets the
development of present-focused awareness and non-judgment of experience. Interest in …

'I live in extremes': A qualitative investigation of Autistic adults' experiences of inertial rest and motion

H Rapaport, H Clapham, J Adams, W Lawson… - …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
'Autistic inertia'is part of the Autistic community's everyday lexicon, yet the condition has
received scant attention in the academic literature. The little attention it has received has …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the role of psychedelic psychotherapy in addressing societal alienation: Imaginaries of liberation

J Tempone-Wiltshire, F Matthews - Journal of psychedelic studies, 2023 - akjournals.com
Questions are currently being posed concerning the implications of the clinical uptake of
psychedelics. While enthusiasm surrounds the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics …

[HTML][HTML] Mindfulness meditation and psychedelics: potential synergies and commonalities

P Holas, J Kamińska - Pharmacological Reports, 2023 - Springer
There has been increasing scientific and clinical interest in studying psychedelic and
meditation-based interventions in recent years, both in the context of improving mental …

Primary states of consciousness: A review of historical and contemporary developments

F Schoeller - Consciousness and Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Primary states of consciousness are conceived as phylogenetically older states of
consciousness as compared to secondary states governed by sociocultural inhibition. The …

Within‐subject reliability of brain networks during advanced meditation: An intensively sampled 7 Tesla MRI case study

S Ganesan, WFZ Yang, A Chowdhury… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced meditation such as jhana meditation can produce various altered states of
consciousness (jhanas) and cultivate rewarding psychological qualities including joy …

Suspending the embodied self in meditation attenuates beta oscillations in posterior medial cortex

FM Trautwein, Y Schweitzer… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Human experience is imbued by the sense of being an embodied agent. The investigation of
such basic self-consciousness has been hampered by the difficulty of comprehensively …