To help facilitate evidence-based mental health care that's compatible with Indonesian religious beliefs, faith leaders will collaborate with psychologists to develop a “mental health toolkit” that can serve as a first point of contact for individuals with psychological or mental health difficulties.

The sense of agency, the feeling of controlling one’s bodily actions and the world is altered in Depersonalization (DP), a condition that makes people feel detached from one’s self and body. To investigate the link between depersonalization and both implicit and explicit sense of agency, an online study was conducted using the influential Intentional Binding paradigm in a sample of non-clinical DP participants. The results did not reveal significant differences between individuals with low and high occurrences of DP experiences on the implicit and explicit sense of agency. However, participants with high occurrences of DP experiences showed a more time-sensitive explicit sense of agency and greater temporal distortions for short intervals in the absence of self-initiated motion. These results suggest that there is a discrepancy between implicit and explicit sense of agency in people with high levels of depersonalization. Altogether, these findings call for further investigations of the key role of time perception on altered sense of self and agency in both non-clinical and clinical populations, to disentangle the mechanisms associated with the explicit and implicit sense of agency.

Leading researchers from academia, tech companies, focused research organizations and non-profits, start-ups, and venture capitalists and funders will explore current barriers to AI development and promising new directions for the field.