Pathophysiological and cognitive mechanisms of fatigue in multiple sclerosis

ZM Manjaly, NA Harrison, HD Critchley… - Journal of Neurology …, 2019 - jnnp.bmj.com
Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS), with a major impact
on patients' quality of life. Currently, treatment proceeds by trial and error with limited …

Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations

KCR Fox, ML Dixon, S Nijeboer, M Girn… - Neuroscience & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques
employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically reviewed 78 functional …

[BUCH][B] Cognitive gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking

C Heyes - 2018 - books.google.com
“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

A higher-order theory of emotional consciousness

JE LeDoux, R Brown - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Emotional states of consciousness, or what are typically called emotional feelings, are
traditionally viewed as being innately programmed in subcortical areas of the brain, and are …

[HTML][HTML] The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs

RL Carhart-Harris, R Leech, PJ Hellyer… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Entropy is a dimensionless quantity that is used for measuring uncertainty about the state of
a system but it can also imply physical qualities, where high entropy is synonymous with …

Computational psychiatry: the brain as a phantastic organ

KJ Friston, KE Stephan, R Montague… - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2014 - thelancet.com
In this Review, we discuss advances in computational neuroscience that relate to psychiatry.
We review computational psychiatry in terms of the ambitions of investigators, emerging …

Domain-general and domain-specific patterns of activity supporting metacognition in human prefrontal cortex

J Morales, H Lau, SM Fleming - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Metacognition is the capacity to evaluate the success of one's own cognitive processes in
various domains; for example, memory and perception. It remains controversial whether …

The computational anatomy of psychosis

RA Adams, KE Stephan, HR Brown, CD Frith… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
This paper considers psychotic symptoms in terms of false inferences or beliefs. It is based
on the notion that the brain is an inference machine that actively constructs hypotheses to …

Finding the self by losing the self: Neural correlates of ego‐dissolution under psilocybin

AV Lebedev, M Lövdén, G Rosenthal… - Human brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ego‐disturbances have been a topic in schizophrenia research since the earliest clinical
descriptions of the disorder. Manifesting as a feeling that one's “self,”“ego,” or “I” is …

Confidence as Bayesian probability: From neural origins to behavior

F Meyniel, M Sigman, ZF Mainen - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Research on confidence spreads across several sub-fields of psychology and neuroscience.
Here, we explore how a definition of confidence as Bayesian probability can unify these …