Research

Earning her Ph.D. in Clinical Neuroscience from the University of Southern California, Marissa Ericson focused on the electrocortical, neuropsychological, behavioral, and psychophysiological etiology of several psychopathologies, namely schizophrenia spectrum disorders (specifically schizotypal traits) and adolescent aggression and psychopathic traits, using a wide range of psychophysiological and brain-related modalities (EEG, ERPs, EKG, sEMG). Her ongoing experience with biomarkers has fueled her interest, papers, and current research projects on oscillopathies, resonance and neural models of sub-threshold perceptual processes, as well as intra-somatic coherence among bodily systems and organs (EEG, EKG, and EGG). Her research interests and current projects span computational and information processing models of consciousness, General Resonance theory (GRT) of consciousness, mindfulness, brain-body dynamics, self-transcendence and peak states, neural synchrony, and quantum theories of consciousness.