Psychedelics are serotonin 2A receptor agonists that can lead to profound changes in
perception, cognition and mood. In this review, we focus on the basic neurobiology …

Predictive processing is a computational framework that aims to explain how the brain
processes sensory information by making predictions about the environment and minimizing …

INTRODUCTION Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia impose enormous human,
social, and economic burdens. The prognosis of psychotic disorders has not substantially …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Background In 2013, a few years after the launch of the National Institute of Mental Health's
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, Cuthbert and Insel published a paper titled …

The psychological effects of isolation have already been described in the literature (polar
expeditions, submarines, prison). Nevertheless, the scale of confinement implemented …

Scientific thinking about the minds of humans and other animals has been transformed by
the idea that the brain is Bayesian. A cornerstone of this idea is that agents set the balance …

From the noisy information bombarding our senses, our brains must construct percepts that
are veridical–reflecting the true state of the world–and informative–conveying what we did …

Nearly all psychiatric diseases involve alterations in subjective, lived experience. The
scientific study of the biological basis of mental illness has generally focused on objective …

Research in clinical neuroscience is founded on the idea that a better understanding of
brain (dys) function will improve our ability to diagnose and treat neurological and …