Voluntary and involuntary motor behaviours in the varieties of religious experience

Brain Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7(2)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Religion is a widespread feature of human life. Religions typically include both distinctive varieties experience and also set foundational beliefs. An additional, but often overlooked, part many religions their expression through specific actions, which we here designate religious motor behaviours. Here describe these behaviours offer taxonomy based on the conceptual schemes movement neuroscience neurology. Thus, rituals characterized by decreased output (e.g. ritualistic silence) increased ritual dances). Neurology distinguishes between movements that are experienced as voluntary or involuntary. We show this same distinction can apply to experiences, since may be either heightened sense personal control being controlled an external, divine source. then use structures investigate examples from wide range contexts. thereby categorize into different classes, focusing examples: repetitive actions; where volition altered, such automatisms; possession-like states. suggest scientific approach should predominant phenomenological presentation, accompanying subjective underlying neurocognitive mechanisms. This investigation shows rich parallels observed in neurological disorders, including those present with functional symptoms. Our does not pathologize behaviours, rather draws attention non-clinical phenomena highlights important social, cultural psychological elements control. Movement activity have unexplored overlaps usefully learn each other.

Language: Английский

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Transcranial direct current stimulation and lesions hierarchically reorganize brain network dynamics with biological annotations

Fundamental Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Interpersonal Synchrony in Dance/Movement Therapy: Neural Underpinnings for Individuals with Dementia

Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 6

Published: July 30, 2024

Rising global levels of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease call for the treatment both cognitive and psychosocial deficits this population. While there is no cure dementia, progression can be slowed, symptoms eased. The positive effects exercise dance have been documented as has interpersonal synchrony. Dance/movement therapy uses kinesthetic empathy, attunement, mirroring to communicate, synchronize, connect with clients, salient a population that often struggles loneliness isolation. Here I offer perspective on how dance/movement promotes social functions neural underpinning synchrony, possibly providing neuroprotection

Language: Английский

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Visualizing the Invisible Tie: Linking Parent-Child Neural Synchrony to Parents’ and Children’s Attachment Representations

Published: July 15, 2023

It is a central tenet of attachment theory that individual differences in representations organize behavior during social interactions. Secure also facilitate behavioral synchrony, key component adaptive parent-child Yet, the dynamic neural processes underlying these interactions and potential role remain largely unknown. A growing body research indicates interpersonal synchrony (INS) could be neurobiological correlate high interaction relationship quality. In this study, we examined whether are associated with parent child representations. total, 140 parents (74 mothers 66 fathers) their children (age 5-6 years; 60 girls 80 boys) engaged cooperative versus problem-solving. INS frontal temporal regions was assessed functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning. Attachment were ascertained by means Adult Interview story-completion task children, alongside video-coded synchrony. Findings revealed increased problem solving across all dyads (𝛸2(2)=9.37, p=.009). Remarkably, but not (p>.159) cooperation. More specifically, insecure maternal related to higher mother-child (𝛸2(3)=9.18, p=.027). Conversely, secure daughter daughter-parent within (𝛸2(3)=12.58, p=.006). Our data thus provide further indication for as promising probe underpinnings context early

Language: Английский

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Brain activity supporting alternating speech for semantic words: simultaneous magnetoencephalographic recording

Cerebral Cortex, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(2)

Published: Jan. 31, 2024

Abstract Communication, especially conversation, is essential for human social life. Many previous studies have examined the neuroscientific underpinnings of i.e. language comprehension and speech production. However, conversation inherently involves two or more people, unless people actually interact with one another, nature cannot be truly revealed. Therefore, in this study, we used magnetoencephalographs that were connected together, simultaneously recorded brain activity while took turns speaking a word association/alphabet completion task. We compared amplitude modulation alpha- beta-band rhythms within each 62 regions under semantic (word association; less predictable) non-semantic (alphabet completion; conditions. found amplitudes significantly different between conditions wide range regions. Additionally, significant differences observed nearly same group after versus before utterance, indicating areas involved predicting partner’s next utterance. This result supports idea mentalizing, e.g. another person's speech, plays an important role suggests neural network implicated mentalizing extends over

Language: Английский

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Unraveling the molecular relevance of brain phenotypes: A comparative analysis of null models and test statistics

NeuroImage, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 293, P. 120622 - 120622

Published: April 21, 2024

Correlating transcriptional profiles with imaging-derived phenotypes has the potential to reveal possible molecular architectures associated cognitive functions, brain development and disorders. Competitive null models built by resampling genes self-contained spinning regions, along varying test statistics, have been used determine significance of associations. However, there no systematic evaluation their performance in imaging transcriptomics analyses. Here, we evaluated eight different statistics (mean, mean absolute value, squared max mean, median, Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS), Weighted KS number significant correlations) both competitive models. Simulated maps (n=1,000) gene sets (n=500) were calculate probability (Psig) for each statistical test. Our results suggested that may result false positive driven co-expression within sets. Furthermore, demonstrated fail account distribution characteristics (e.g., bimodality) correlations between all available phenotypes, leading positives. These two confounding factors interacted differently resulting outcomes. Specifically, sign-sensitive (i.e., KS, KS) influenced bias models, while median sign-insensitive sensitive bimodality Additionally, KS-based produced conservative which increased risk negatives. Comprehensive supplementary analyses various configurations, including realistic scenarios, supported results. findings suggest utilizing such as statistic adopting confounder-matched coexpression-matched) an alternative standard can be a viable strategy. Overall, present study offers insights into selection tests studies, highlighting areas further investigation refinement novel commonly tests.

Language: Английский

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Mapping the Brain Network of Conduct Disorder: Heterogeneous fMRI findings converge on a Common Brain Circuit

medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: June 3, 2024

Conduct disorder (CD) is among the most prevalent and burdensome disorders in early adolescence. Over past decade, there has been growing interest identifying reliable localized neurobiological markers of conduct (CD). However, recent meta-analyses have highlighted weak reliability these so-called markers, thereby limiting ability to draw firm conclusions. Using normative network mapping (598 healthy subjects), we rather sought investigate whether heterogeneous findings across studies may map unto a common brain network. A meta-analysis 38 fMRI involving adolescents with CD (932 cases, 975 controls) was first conducted showed only very spatial convergence activity alterations anterior temporal lobe (5 out studies). In turn, revealed that show consistent connectivity pattern whole brain, regional overlap reaching up 94.7% (36 This primarily driven by functional brainstem nuclei, subcortical structures (i.e., thalamus, ventral striatum), cingulate cortex posterior midcingulate), superior sulcus, visual cortices. We further describe neurochemicals genetic this CD-Network emphasis on midbrain serotoninergic, dopaminergic cholinergic projections. Our suggest our understanding could be enhanced viewing as complex interconnected system than reducing its complexity limited number structures. More importantly, serve evidence various theories can reconciled seen conflicting.

Language: Английский

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The time lag in local field potential signals for the development of its Bayesian belief network

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2024(1)

Published: Sept. 27, 2024

Language: Английский

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Interpersonal Neural Synchrony and Mental Disorders: Unlocking Potential Pathways for Clinical Interventions

Published: Sept. 10, 2023

The current review provides an overview of various techniques for manipulating interpersonal neural synchrony. It presents a 'second-person' neuroscience approach as potential clinical tool treating certain mental disorders characterized by social interaction challenges, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attachment and Social Anxiety Disorder.

Language: Английский

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A dual-brain therapeutic approach using noninvasive brain stimulation based on two-person neuroscience: A perspective review

Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 21(4), P. 5118 - 5137

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

<abstract> <p>Our actions and decisions in everyday life are heavily influenced by social interactions, which dynamic feedback loops involving actions, reactions, internal cognitive processes between individual agents. Social interactions induce interpersonal synchrony, occurs at different biobehavioral levels comprises behavioral, physiological, neurological activities. Hyperscanning—a neuroimaging technique that simultaneously measures the activity of multiple brain regions—has provided a powerful second-person neuroscience tool for investigating phase alignment neural during interactive behavior. Neural synchronization, revealed hyperscanning, is phenomenon called inter-brain synchrony- process purportedly facilitates prompting appropriate anticipation responses to each other's behaviors ongoing shared interactions. In this review, I explored therapeutic dual-brain approach using noninvasive stimulation target synchrony based on modulate interaction. Artificially inducing brains potential adjunct physiotherapy, psychotherapy, pain treatment- strongly interaction therapist patient. Dual-brain approaches personalize parameters must consider temporal, spatial, oscillatory factors. Multiple data fusion analysis, assessment plasticity, closed-loop system, brain-to-brain interface can support personalized stimulation.</p> </abstract>

Language: Английский

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