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This small, double-blind pilot trial gave 28 people with alcohol problems either a sublingual esketamine film (115.1 mg) or a vitamin C placebo while they did two weeks of daily mindfulness practice. Compared with placebo, esketamine increased people’s psychological engagement with the meditation, produced stronger mystical and dissociative experiences, and…
Researchers scanned the brain activity of one very experienced meditator (more than 23,000 hours of practice) while they entered deep concentration states called jhanas. They used two brain-measuring tools — fMRI, which shows which brain areas are communicating, and EEG, which records electrical rhythms — and also had the person…
The authors ran four lab studies on "sensory eating," which means paying close attention to a food's look, smell, texture, and taste while you eat. In each study people ate a small high-calorie snack either with sensory eating or as usual, and 5–15 minutes later they were offered larger snack…
