Neural mechanisms and psychology of psychedelic ego dissolution

D Stoliker, GF Egan, KJ Friston, A Razi… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Neuroimaging studies of psychedelics have advanced our understanding of hierarchical
brain organization and the mechanisms underlying their subjective and therapeutic effects …

Neurophysiological signatures of cortical micro-architecture

G Shafiei, BD Fulcher, B Voytek… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Systematic spatial variation in micro-architecture is observed across the cortex. These micro-
architectural gradients are reflected in neural activity, which can be captured by …

Pattern breaking: a complex systems approach to psychedelic medicine

I Hipólito, J Mago, FE Rosas… - Neuroscience of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent research has demonstrated the potential of psychedelic therapy for mental health
care. However, the psychological experience underlying its therapeutic effects remains …

Human electromagnetic and haemodynamic networks systematically converge in unimodal cortex and diverge in transmodal cortex

G Shafiei, S Baillet, B Misic - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Whole-brain neural communication is typically estimated from statistical associations among
electromagnetic or haemodynamic time-series. The relationship between functional network …

As without, so within: how the brain's temporo-spatial alignment to the environment shapes consciousness

G Northoff, P Klar, M Bein, A Safron - Interface Focus, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Consciousness is constituted by a structure that includes contents as foreground and the
environment as background. This structural relation between the experiential foreground …

Integrated world modeling theory expanded: Implications for the future of consciousness

A Safron - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Integrated world modeling theory (IWMT) is a synthetic theory of consciousness that uses the
free energy principle and active inference (FEP-AI) framework to combine insights from …

Computational neurosciences and quantitative systems pharmacology: a powerful combination for supporting drug development in neurodegenerative diseases

H Geerts, S Bergeler, WW Lytton… - … of Pharmacokinetics and …, 2024 - Springer
Successful clinical development of new therapeutic interventions is notoriously difficult,
especially in neurodegenerative diseases, where predictive biomarkers are scarce and …

On the varieties of conscious experiences: altered beliefs under psychedelics (ALBUS)

A Safron - 2020 - osf.io
How is it that psychedelics so profoundly impact brain and mind? According to the highly
influential model of" Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics"(REBUS)(Carhart-Harris & Friston …

[HTML][HTML] The promise and pitfalls of a strength-based approach to child poverty and neurocognitive development: Implications for policy

ML DeJoseph, ME Ellwood-Lowe, D Miller-Cotto… - Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been significant progress in understanding the effects of childhood poverty on
neurocognitive development. This progress has captured the attention of policymakers and …

On Embedded Normativity an Active Inference Account of Agency Beyond Flesh

A Guénin–Carlut, M Albarracin - International Workshop on Active …, 2023 - Springer
We introduce and motivate the concept of embedded normativity to account for the
externalization of social norms in the material environment through human social activity …