Consciousness is often studied by asking whether particular brain regions or systems are privileged. We tested a distributed, decentred and context-sensitive alternative using 579 consciousness-focuse...

Barriers to Medical Cannabis in the UK: Human Rights Implications of Criminalization and Inequitable Access, examines the gap between legal recognition and practical access from a human rights perspec...

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Dutch philosopher Bernardo Kastrup explains Arthur Schoenphauer's metaphysics of self, and why core subjectivity transcends bodily death.

The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) has announced funding for thirty-two projects.

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Phenomenological psychopathologists have recently highlighted how people with delusions experience multiple realities (delusional and non-delusional) and have suggested this double bookkeeping cannot be explained via predictive processing. Here, we present data from Kamin blocking and extinction learning that show how predictive processing might, in principle, explain a pervasive sense of dual reality.

Nicolas Decat is a PhD student in neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute. By day, he investigates what goes through people’s minds as they drift off to sleep. When they’re sleeping, he works on way...

When asked to judge if a chase was present in a visual display of moving discs, people with higher paranoia and teleological thinking were more likely to perceive a chase in its absence. They were als...

Standard medical exams miss subtle signs of awareness in around 40% of cases.

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Metastability is a concept from dynamical systems. In the brain, it is thought to reflect the balance between the cooperative and independent functioning of brain...

This study introduces a breakthrough in noninvasive brain-monitoring technology through on-scalp-printed and self-drying conductive inks for electroencephalography (EEG). These ultrathin, skin-conformable temporary e-tattoos provide a comfortable and precise way to capture brain activity, overcoming the limitations of traditional EEG systems, such as bulky equipment and manual setup. With personalized sensor layouts, distinct electrode and interconnect inks, and a hair-compatible digital printing process, these on-scalp-formed e-tattoos represent a promising tool for clinical diagnostics, brain-computer interfaces, and wearable health applications.

Examination of the neural activity in the basolateral amygdala and ventral CA1 of mice during tasks or rest following exposure to social stress reveals signatures of resilience and susceptibility to s...

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Psilocybin (a psychoactive compound found in “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms”) has been gaining increased attention in research and popular culture as a…

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Signal detection theory (SDT) has long provided the field of psychology with a simple but powerful model of how observers make decisions under uncertainty. SDT can distinguish sensitivity from respons...

Optimizing study design is critical for increasing standardized effect sizes and replicability, and the features that increase replicability in cross-sectional and longitudinal brain-wide association ...

Psychedelics lead to profound changes in subjective experience and behaviour, which are typically conceptualised in psychological terms rather than corresponding to an altered brain state or a distinc...

Humans often engage in self-generated thoughts when unoccupied by external events, a phenomenon commonly known as mind-wandering. Previous research has predominantly focused on the cognitive aspects o...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder with defining abnormalities in memory, and psychedelics may be promising candidates for the treatment of PTSD given their effects on mult...

Severely brain-injured patients may enter a spectrum of conditions collectively known as disorders of consciousness (DoC). This spectrum includes clinical categories such as unresponsive wakefulness s...

Abstract. Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception, nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fea

Scientific Reports - Strategies for resolving challenging psychedelic experiences: insights from a mixed-methods study