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Adolescent elite swimmers’ self-esteem and emotional states: Benefits of organized leisure-time activities

This study examined whether an Organized Leisure-Time Activities program (OLT3A) strengthens self-esteem and emotional states in elite adolescent swimmers. Twenty-five national-level swimmers (Mage = 14.44 ± 1.23 y) were randomized to a six-week OLT3A intervention or a waiting-li...

The Human Experience Framework: Clinical Manual (Version 3.0)

This manual presents the Human Experience Framework (HEF), a neuroscience-grounded classification system for understanding human psychological suffering through the lens of predictive processing, primary affect systems, distributed functional brain networks, and somatic experienc...

The Human Experience System: A Transdisciplinary Model of Embodied Human Experience for Clinical Science and Computational Therapeutics

Current models of human experience used in clinical science — the biopsychosocial model (Engel, 1977), categorical diagnostic systems (DSM-5-TR; APA, 2022; ICD-11; WHO, 2019), and dimensional frameworks (RDoC; Insel et al., 2010) — share four critical absences: no model treats th...

A Somatic Ontology for Computational Therapeutics: Formalizing Body-Based Experience for Digital Mental Health

The Cathexis Somatic Ontology (CSO) is a formal vocabulary and relational schema for encoding body-based therapeutic data. Its canonical name and namespace are CSO; it is registered as CXSO on NCBO BioPortal, where the acronym CSO was already taken. The two names refer to the sam...