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Research
Latest papers
Computational spirits: a neuroscientific account of psychedelic entity encounters.
Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026 · senior author
Mnemonics, optimization, and leveraging what we already have: Comment on "To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective" by Grinschgl, S., Ninaus, M., Wood, G., & Neubauer, A. C.
Physics of life reviews · 2026 · senior author
Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries.
Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026
Latest funding
- $375,926
Algorithmic Porosity: TikTok at the Edges of the Self
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $600,526
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) vs. Health Enhancement Program (HEP) Active Control for the Treatment of Late-Life Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial
CIHR · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) vs. Health Enhancement Program (HEP) Active Control for the Treatment of Late-Life Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
38 publications.
Computational spirits: a neuroscientific account of psychedelic entity encounters.
Mago J, Deane G, Sandved-Smith L, Safron A, Timmermann C, Ramstead M, Dupuis D, Carhart-Harris R, Greenway KT, Lifshitz M
Mnemonics, optimization, and leveraging what we already have: Comment on "To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective" by Grinschgl, S., Ninaus, M., Wood, G., & Neubauer, A. C.
Reggente N, Tobel T, Lifshitz M
Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries.
Becattini V, Lifshitz M, Miller M
A systematic review of hyperscanning in clinical encounters.
Adel L, Moses L, Irvine E, Greenway KT, Dumas G, Lifshitz M
The ketamine chameleon: history, pharmacology, and the contested value of experience.
Diep D, de la Salle S, Thibault Lévesque J, Lifshitz M, Garel N, Greenway KT
Is sharing always caring? Entropy, boundaries and the plurality of psychotherapeutic process: Comment on "Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy" by P. Sarasso et al.
Adel L, Gomez-Carrillo A, Mago J, Lifshitz M, Dumas G
The Spiral of Attention, Arousal, and Release: A Comparative Phenomenology of Jhāna Meditation and Speaking in Tongues.
Brahinsky J, Mago J, Miller M, Catherine S, Lifshitz M
Effects of virtual reality guided meditation in older adults: the protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Cinalioglu K, Lavín P, Bein M, Lesage M, Gruber J, Se J, Bukhari S, Sasi N, Noble H, Andree-Bruneau M, Launay C, Sanders J, Gauthier S, Rosa P, Lifshitz M, Battistini BJ, Beauchet O, Khoury B, Bouchard S, Fallavollita P, Vahia I, Rej S, Sekhon H
Imprinting: expanding the extra-pharmacological model of psychedelic drug action to incorporate delayed influences of sets and settings.
Garel N, Thibault Lévesque J, Sandra DA, Lessard-Wajcer J, Solomonova E, Lifshitz M, Richard-Devantoy S, Greenway KT
Trait absorption is not reliably associated with brain structure or resting-state functional connectivity.
Girn M, Spreng RN, Margulies DS, Van Elk M, Lifshitz M
Algorithmic Porosity: TikTok at the Edges of the Self
Principal investigators: Collu, Samuele
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) vs. Health Enhancement Program (HEP) Active Control for the Treatment of Late-Life Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Principal investigators: Rej, Soham; Chakravarty, Mallar; Lifshitz, Michael
Keywords: Health Enhancement Program Active Control; Late-Life Depression; Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy; Neurocognition; Neuroimaging; Randomized Controlled Trial; Treatment
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) vs. Health Enhancement Program (HEP) Active Control for the Treatment of Late-Life Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Principal investigators: Rej, Soham; Chakravarty, Mallar
Keywords: Health Enhancement Program Active Control; Late-Life Depression; Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy; Neurocognition; Neuroimaging; Randomized Controlled Trial; Treatment
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Serge Gauthier and Pedro Rosa-Neto: 168 shared papers
- Istvan Mucsi and Soham Rej: 12 shared papers
- Soham Rej and Olivier Beauchet: 6 shared papers
- Serge Gauthier and Soham Rej: 5 shared papers
- Pedro Rosa-Neto and Soham Rej: 5 shared papers
- Soham Rej and Michael Lifshitz: 5 shared papers
- Soham Rej and Bassam Khoury: 5 shared papers
- Soham Rej and Emilie Trinh: 4 shared papers
- Stephane Bouchard and Soham Rej: 3 shared papers
- Stephane Bouchard and Olivier Beauchet: 3 shared papers
- Stephane Bouchard and Pascal Fallavollita: 3 shared papers
- Stephane Bouchard and Bassam Khoury: 3 shared papers
- Istvan Mucsi and Emilie Trinh: 3 shared papers
- Soham Rej and Pascal Fallavollita: 3 shared papers
- Michael Lifshitz and Guillaume Dumas: 3 shared papers
- Olivier Beauchet and Pascal Fallavollita: 3 shared papers
- Olivier Beauchet and Bassam Khoury: 3 shared papers
- Soham Rej and Mark Speechley: 2 shared papers
- Michael Lifshitz and Bassam Khoury: 2 shared papers
- Daniel Blumberger and Soham Rej: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Blumberger and Michael Lifshitz: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Blumberger and Mark Speechley: 1 shared paper
- Serge Gauthier and Stephane Bouchard: 1 shared paper
- Serge Gauthier and Michael Lifshitz: 1 shared paper
- Serge Gauthier and Justin Sanders: 1 shared paper
- Stephane Bouchard and Michael Lifshitz: 1 shared paper
- Stephane Bouchard and Justin Sanders: 1 shared paper
- Gabriella Gobbi and Pedro Rosa-Neto: 1 shared paper
- Gabriella Gobbi and Michael Lifshitz: 1 shared paper
- Pedro Rosa-Neto and Michael Lifshitz: 1 shared paper
- Istvan Mucsi and Michael Lifshitz: 1 shared paper
- Istvan Mucsi and Elizaveta Solomonova: 1 shared paper
- Kalina Christoff and Michael Lifshitz: 1 shared paper
- Soham Rej and Guillaume Dumas: 1 shared paper
- Soham Rej and Justin Sanders: 1 shared paper
- Soham Rej and Elizaveta Solomonova: 1 shared paper
- Michael Lifshitz and Olivier Beauchet: 1 shared paper
- Michael Lifshitz and Justin Sanders: 1 shared paper
- Michael Lifshitz and Emilie Trinh: 1 shared paper
- Michael Lifshitz and Mathieu Landry: 1 shared paper
- Michael Lifshitz and Pascal Fallavollita: 1 shared paper
- Michael Lifshitz and Mark Speechley: 1 shared paper
- Michael Lifshitz and Elizaveta Solomonova: 1 shared paper
- Guillaume Dumas and Bassam Khoury: 1 shared paper
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Pediatrics
- Psychology
- Department of Psychiatry
- Medicine/Nephrology
- Psychiatry
- Department of Psychology
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Soham Rej
Faculty
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Guillaume Dumas
Pediatrics
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Bassam Khoury
Psychology
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Elizaveta Solomonova
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Mathieu Landry
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Emilie Trinh
Medicine/Nephrology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Pascal Fallavollita
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Justin Sanders
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Mark Speechley
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Olivier Beauchet
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Serge Gauthier
Neurology and Neurosurgery
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Stephane Bouchard
Psychologie
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Gabriella Gobbi
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Daniel Blumberger
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Istvan Mucsi
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Kalina Christoff
Department of Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Pedro Rosa-Neto
Neurology and Neurosurgery
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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