Modulating Self-referential Processing Through Meditation and Psychedelics: is Scientific Investigation of Self-transcendence Clinically Relevant?

Overview

Journal World Psychiatry

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2024 May 10

PMID 38727064

Authors

Matthew D Sacchet

Maurizio Fava

Eric L Garland

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