Rapid antidepressant effects of the psychedelic ayahuasca in treatment-resistant depression: a randomized placebo-controlled trial

F Palhano-Fontes, D Barreto, H Onias… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundRecent open-label trials show that psychedelics, such as ayahuasca, hold
promise as fast-onset antidepressants in treatment-resistant depression.MethodsTo test the …

[HTML][HTML] Shannon entropy of brain functional complex networks under the influence of the psychedelic Ayahuasca

A Viol, F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias, DB De Araujo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The entropic brain hypothesis holds that the key facts concerning psychedelics are partially
explained in terms of increased entropy of the brain’s functional connectivity. Ayahuasca is a …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of yoga respiratory practice (Bhastrika pranayama) on anxiety, affect, and brain functional connectivity and activity: a randomized controlled trial

MM Novaes, F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pranayama refers to a set of yoga breathing exercises. Recent evidence suggests that the
practice of pranayama has positive effects on measures of clinical stress and anxiety. This …

[HTML][HTML] Cortisol modulation by ayahuasca in patients with treatment resistant depression and healthy controls

…, FAM Freire, F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Major depression is a highly prevalent mood disorder, affecting about 350 million people, and
around 30% of the patients are resistant to currently available antidepressant medications. …

[HTML][HTML] Brain complex network analysis by means of resting state fMRI and graph analysis: Will it be helpful in clinical epilepsy?

H Onias, A Viol, F Palhano-Fontes, KC Andrade… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has just completed 20 years of existence. It
currently serves as a research tool in a broad range of human brain studies in normal and …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing complex networks using entropy-degree diagrams: unveiling changes in functional brain connectivity induced by Ayahuasca

A Viol, F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias, DB de Araujo… - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
With the aim of further advancing the understanding of the human brain’s functional
connectivity, we propose a network metric which we term the geodesic entropy. This metric …

[HTML][HTML] Física estatística aplicada à neurociência de estados alterados: o cérebro sob influência de psicodélicos

…, H Felippe Jr, F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
O objetivo principal da mecânica estatística é relacionar a física microscópica regida pelas
leis de Newton, ou então pela mecânica quântica, com a física macroscópica regida pelas …

Information parity increases on functional brain networks under influence of a psychedelic substance

…, F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The physical basis of consciousness is one of the most intriguing open questions that
contemporary science aims to solve. By approaching the brain as an interactive information system…

Bifurcações dinâmicas em circuitos eletrônicos

HHS Onias - 2012 - repositorio.ufrn.br
O circuito RLD, formado por um resistor, um indutor e um diodo em série, apresenta uma
dinâmica muito rica quando forçado por uma tensão externa harmônica e vem sendo …

[PDF][PDF] Emotion processing and the antidepressant effects of ayahuasca in treatment-resistant depression: An fMRI study

F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias, M Novaes… - … da ayahuasca, suas …, 2017 - academia.edu
Major depression is a disorder intrinsically related to emotion. Neuroimaging studies in
patients with depression find structural and functional changes in brain circuits involved in …