During the last three decades our understanding of the brain processes underlying
consciousness and attention has significantly improved, mainly because of the advances in …

Depression is a major public health problem that affects approximately 4.4% of the global
population. Since conventional pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies are only partially …

Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself an
illusion? Am I conscious now? Now considered the'last great mystery of science' …

Mindfulness based therapies (MBTs) for eating disorders show potential benefit for
outcomes yet evidence is scarce regarding the mechanisms by which they influence …

Arterial hypertension is a major public health issue. Non-pharmacological approaches like
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) might be a promising addition to conventional …

The seminal paper of Crick and Koch (2005) proposed that the claustrum, an enigmatic and
thin grey matter structure that lies beside the insular cortex, may be involved in the …

Meditation, as taught by most schools of practice, consists of a set of heterogeneous
techniques. We wanted to assess if EEG profiles varied across different meditation …

I started my journey as a child, asking many questions about the nature of reality and how
we, as humans, can understand that reality. I initially realized the importance of the human …

The English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' levels of attention and meditation as well
as brainwaves while interacting with an interlocutor in three different second-language (L2) …

Not much research has adopted a multicomponent approach to examine the relationship
between mindfulness and cognitive control. Studies addressing this issue have produced …