Understanding the effects of serotonin in the brain through its role in the gastrointestinal tract

JM Shine, C O'Callaghan, IC Walpola, G Wainstein… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The neuromodulatory arousal system imbues the nervous system with the flexibility and
robustness required to facilitate adaptive behaviour. While there are well understood …

An Integrated theory of false insights and beliefs under psychedelics

HT McGovern, HJ Grimmer, MK Doss… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Psychedelics are recognised for their potential to re-orient beliefs. We propose a model of
how psychedelics can, in some cases, lead to false insights and thus false beliefs. We first …

Mental navigation and the neural mechanisms of insight

J Aru, M Drüke, J Pikamäe, ME Larkum - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
How do new ideas come about? The central hypothesis presented here states that insights
might happen during mental navigation and correspond to rapid plasticity at the cellular …

Abrupt and spontaneous strategy switches emerge in simple regularised neural networks

AT Löwe, L Touzo, PS Muhle-Karbe… - PLoS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Humans sometimes have an insight that leads to a sudden and drastic performance
improvement on the task they are working on. Sudden strategy adaptations are often linked …

Psychedelics as potential catalysts of scientific creativity and insight

S Gandy, V Bonnelle, E Jacobs… - Drug Science, Policy …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Creativity, that is the creation of ideas or objects considered both novel and valuable, is
among the most important and highly valued of human traits, and a fundamental aspect of …

Evidence-based scientific thinking and decision-making in everyday life

C Dawson, H Julku, M Pihlajamäki… - Cognitive Research …, 2024 - Springer
In today's knowledge economy, it is critical to make decisions based on high-quality
evidence. Science-related decision-making is thought to rely on a complex interplay of …

Psychedelic replications in virtual reality and their potential as a therapeutic instrument: an open-label feasibility study

KK Kaup, M Vasser, K Tulver, M Munk… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Recent research has shown promising results for the therapeutic benefits of
psychedelics. One popular view claims that these benefits are mediated by the subjective …

[图书][B] The elephant and the blind: the experience of pure consciousness: philosophy, science, and 500+ experiential reports

T Metzinger - 2024 - books.google.com
An engaging and insightful journey into human consciousness. What if our goal had not
been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness …

Promoting and supporting epiphanies in organizations: A transformational approach to employee development

E Dane - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reflecting trends in society, organizations are seeking to embrace personal distinctiveness
and self-expression among their members. Doing so is more complicated than meets the …

Transpersonal ecodelia: Surveying psychedelically induced biophilia

A Irvine, D Luke, F Harrild, S Gandy, R Watts - Psychoactives, 2023 - mdpi.com
Objective: To explore the perceived influence of psychedelic experiences on participants'
relationship with the natural world. Method: A total of 272 participants reporting previous use …