CCNP Innovations in Neuropsychopharmacology Award: The psychopharmacology of psychedelics: where the brain meets spirituality.

For 3000 years, psychedelics have been used in religious contexts to enhance spiritual thinking, well-being, and a sense of community. In the last few years, a renaissance in the use of psychedelic dr…

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Gobbi, G. (2024). CCNP Innovations in Neuropsychopharmacology Award: The psychopharmacology of psychedelics: where the brain meets spirituality.. J Psychiatry Neurosci, 49(5), E301-E318. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.240037

End-of-Life Practices in an Intensive Care Unit of a Private Hospital in Mexico.

BACKGROUND: Many factors, such as religion, geography, and customs, influence end-of-life practices. This variability exists even between different physicians.OBJECTIVE: To observe and describe the en…

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Miranda-Ackerman, R. C., Ruiz-Ochoa, P., López-Ramírez, D., Quevedo-Barrientos, J. F., Plascencia-Rendón, M., Landeros-Torres, J. L., Astorga-Cervantes, K. F., González-Uribe, A., Cortes-Flores, A. O., Del-Valle, C. J. Z., Morgan-Villela, G., Barbosa-Camacho, F. J., Fuentes-Orozco, C., Brancaccio-Pérez, I. V., & González-Ojeda, A. (2024). End-of-Life Practices in an Intensive Care Unit of a Private Hospital in Mexico.. Palliat Med Rep, 5(1), 359-364. https://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2024.0023

The gamma-band activity model of the near-death experience: a critique and a reinterpretation.

Near-death experience (NDE) is a transcendent mental event of uncertain etiology that arises on the cusp of biological death. Since the discovery of NDE in the mid-1970s, multiple neuroscientific theo…

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A, S. h. a. w. . N. (2024). The gamma-band activity model of the near-death experience: a critique and a reinterpretation.. F1000Res, 13, 674. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.151422.2

Brain injury following child maltreatment syndrome in newborns and young children. Shaken baby syndrome.

BACKGROUND: Shaken baby syndrome is widely discussed in the literature. This syndrome is considered as a variant of child maltreatment syndrome. In the English-language literature, there are data on h…

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Semenova, Z. B., Mamatkulov, A. Z., Erofeev, E. V., Dmitrienko, D. M., Melnikov, I. A., Nalbandyan, R. T., & Zaitseva, E. S. (2024). Brain injury following child maltreatment syndrome in newborns and young children. Shaken baby syndrome.. Zh Vopr Neirokhir Im N N Burdenko, 88(4), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.17116/neiro2024880415

Silence between words: Is solitude important for relatedness?

Chronic loneliness is a risk factor for physical and health problems, in part due to dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and sympathetic nervous system. In contrast, temporary…

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Costa, R. M. (2024). Silence between words: Is solitude important for relatedness?. Prog Brain Res, 287, 153-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2024.05.013

Maintenance of brain health: The role of social determinants of health and other non-traditional cardiovascular risks.

Brain health is the complete functioning of the brain across the life course to support the full physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and quality of life of an individual towards attaini…

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Olowoyo, P., Adeniji, O., Akinyemi, R., & Owolabi, M. (2024). Maintenance of brain health: The role of social determinants of health and other non-traditional cardiovascular risks.. Cereb Circ Cogn Behav, 6, 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100213

Ancillary tests for brain death.

BACKGROUND: Ancillary tests are often used in the determination of death by neurologic criteria (DNC), especially when the clinical examination is inconclusive. DNC is widely accepted, as defined by t…

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Duvuru, S., Sanker, V., Mishra, R. K., Sharma, A. K., Lim, S. L., Baskar, N., & Sharma, V. K. (2024). Ancillary tests for brain death.. Front Neurol, 15, 1491263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2024.1491263

The multifaceted nature of Egyptian mummification: Paleoradiological insights into child mummies.

In accordance with ancient Egyptian beliefs, the preservation of the body after death was an important prerequisite for the continued existence of the deceased in the afterlife. This involved applicat…

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Zesch, S., Panzer, S., Paladin, A., Sutherland, M. L., Lindauer, S., Friedrich, R., Pommerening, T., Zink, A., & Rosendahl, W. (2024). The multifaceted nature of Egyptian mummification: Paleoradiological insights into child mummies.. PLoS One, 19(12), e0316018. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316018

Saint Paul, the Apostle, and the Gastaut-Geschwind syndrome.

The interface between epilepsy and religiosity has been a long-standing matter of debate. Epilepsy has affected several religious leaders throughout history. Hyperreligiosity may be observed in patien…

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de, S. o. u. z. a. . L. C., de, O. l. i. v. e. i. r. a. . G. N. M., Gambogi, L. B., Gonçalves, A. P., & Teixeira, A. L. (2024). Saint Paul, the Apostle, and the Gastaut-Geschwind syndrome.. Dement Neuropsychol, 18, e20240165. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-5764-DN-2024-0165

Advances in brain and religion studies: a review and synthesis of recent representative studies.

We review and synthesize recent religion and brain studies and find that at a broad network neuroscience level, religious/spiritual experiences (RSEs) appear to depend crucially upon interactions betw…

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McNamara, P., & Grafman, J. (2024). Advances in brain and religion studies: a review and synthesis of recent representative studies.. Front Hum Neurosci, 18, 1495565. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1495565

Solving the Global Opioid Crisis: Incorporating Genetic Addiction Risk Assessment with Personalized Dopaminergic Homeostatic Therapy and Awareness Integration Therapy.

OBJECTIVES: The opioid crisis in the last few decades has mounted to a global level, impacting all areas of socioeconomic, demographic, geographic, and cultural boundaries. Traditional treatments have…

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Zeine, F., Jafari, N., Baron, D., Bowirrat, A., Pinhasov, A., Norling, B., Martinez, K. C., Nami, M., Manavi, N., Sunder, K., Rabin, D. M., Bagchi, D., Khalsa, J., Gold, M. S., Sipple, D., Barzegar, M., Bodhanapati, J., Khader, W., Carney, P., … Blum, K. (2024). Solving the Global Opioid Crisis: Incorporating Genetic Addiction Risk Assessment with Personalized Dopaminergic Homeostatic Therapy and Awareness Integration Therapy.. J Addict Psychiatry, 8(1), 50-95.

Resilience and Concussion Recovery in Minority Women: Promoting Health Equity.

Resilience is associated with the degree to which post-concussion symptoms (PCS) are experienced. However, the role of resilience in the recovery trajectory of minority women, who tend to have prolong…

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Ruiter-Lopez, L., Donohue, J. K., Vempalli, H., Thurston, R. C., Levine, M. D., Snedaker, K., Donnelly, K. Z., Okonkwo, D. O., & Anto-Ocrah, M. (2024). Resilience and Concussion Recovery in Minority Women: Promoting Health Equity.. Neurotrauma Rep, 5(1), 989-997. https://doi.org/10.1089/neur.2024.0075