Cognitive & Affective Neuroscientist | Contemplative & Mind Body Research | Exploring awareness one moment at a time | #mindfulness #meditation #psychedelics #self #contemplativeneuroscience
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Dave Vago
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nice review reflecting on the potential of meditation apps. what we know and where is the field going? #contemplativeresearh #meditationapps psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
The RFP for Music Based Interventions and Pain pilot studies are out! audioanalgesia.org/2025-call-fo...
Neurofluid circulation changes during a focused attention style of mindfulness meditation | PNAS #mindfulness #contemplativvescience #glymphaticsystem www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Loving @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social work bridging science and experience of energy with a focus on mitochondrial dynamics. check out his energy resistance principle: www.cell.com/cell-metabol... #energy
Human Brain Mapping | Neuroimaging Journal #contemplativeneuroscience #self #meditation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Temporal coordination (phase synchrony) of gamma signalling is a fundamental mechanism of information processing. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #gamma #attention
Nondual awareness scale - State and Trait differences. #contemplativeresearch #nondualawareness link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
great reflections on meaning-engendering, an ‘ecology’ of bodily, sociotechnical and moral frameworks, and using technology from a contemplative lens #contemplativeresearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Really enjoyed being part of this #dose-response in #mindfulness #meditation #symposium #panel at #ISCR2025 today together with @sgoldbergphd.bsky.social, Yuval Hadash, & Nick Bowles, chaired by David Creswell & facilitated by @drericgarland.bsky.social Thank you for the (many) people who came!
Neurofluids, including cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and interstitial fluid, circulate
through regulated central nervous system pathways to clear cereb...
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Picard and Murugan introduce the energy resistance principle (ERP), a testable framework
outlining how resistance to energy flow sustains life and shapes health. Excess resistance
(éR) promotes hallma...
Meditation-induced self-boundary dissolution can be predicted from magnetoencephalography recordings using Lempel-Ziv complexity and oscillatory power as neural markers. We demonstrate significantly ...
The brain’s ability to route information selectively is vital for perception and behavior. Here, the authors demonstrate that routing causally depends on the precise synchronization of rhythmic neuron...
Two versions of the Nondual Awareness Dimensional Assessment-Trait (NADA) were developed as self-report measures of nondual awareness. The trait version of the NADA (NADA-T) was developed to assess du...
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We endorse policymakers’ efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy’s technology but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context o...
