Lena Adel

McGill University | McGill · Department of Psychiatry

Generative phenomenology investigates consciousness by incorporating its intersubjective, social, cultural, and historical dimensions. For the past 30 years, the neurophenomenology pragmatic approach has embraced an embodied perspective of the mind by integrating experiential first-person and neurobehavioural third-person data. Neurophenomenology r...

Therapeutic alliance is defined as the collaborative relationship between patient and therapist. Strong therapeutic alliances have been associated with positive clinical outcomes, but much remains unknown about alliance and its physiological basis. Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) – the synchronization of neural signals between interacting indi...

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 14% of the US population practice mindfulness meditation. The effects of mindfulness training on physical and mental health have been consistently documented, but its effects on interpersonal relationships are not yet fully understood or investigated. Interpersonal relationships play...

The use of EEG to simultaneously record multiple brains (i.e., hyperscanning) during social interactions has led to the discovery of inter-brain coupling (IBC). IBC is defined as the neural synchronization between people and is considered to be a marker of social interaction. IBC has previously been observed across different frequency bands, includ...

The use of EEG to simultaneously record multiple brains (i.e., hyperscanning) during social interactions has led to the discovery of inter-brain coupling (IBC). IBC is defined as the neural synchronization between people and is considered to be a marker of social interaction. IBC has previously been observed across different frequency bands, includ...

Emotional sharing is a tool for human emotion regulation. This complex cognitive ability is not ultimately determined by intrapersonal cognitive abilities but relies on interpersonal reciprocity. By combining insights from 4E cognition with experimental findings from a semi-structured EEG hyperscanning setup , I argue that 'the other' becomes an in...

Background: Cardinal symptoms of acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) include distorted articulation of speech sounds, slow rate of speech due to prolonged segmental and inter-segmental durations and peculiar prosody. They could be caused by impaired self-monitoring. On the other hand, additional common symptoms like visible effort while speaking and c...