Though only a decade has elapsed since the default network (DN) was first defined as a
large‐scale brain system, recent years have brought great insight into the network's adaptive …

Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

Scientific research highlights the central role of specific psychological processes, in
particular those related to the self, in various forms of human suffering and flourishing. This …

The processing of rewards and losses are crucial to everyday functioning. Considerable
interest has been attached to investigating the anticipation and outcome phases of reward …

This is the authoritative guide to conducting the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program,
which provides powerful tools for co** with life challenges and enhancing emotional well …

This chapter begins with a brief review of descriptions and definitions of mystical-type
experiences and the historical connection between classic hallucinogens and mystical …

Users of psychedelic drugs often report that their sense of being a self or 'I'distinct from the
rest of the world has diminished or altogether dissolved. Neuroscientific study of such 'ego …

There is converging evidence that high doses of hallucinogenic drugs can produce
significant alterations of self-experience, described as the dissolution of the sense of self …

The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework (FEP-AI) begins with the
understanding that thermodynamically-open systems must regulate environmental …

In the present fMRI study, we aimed to obtain insight into the key brain networks involved in
the experience of awe—a complex emotion that is typically elicited by perceptually vast …