This psychedelic drug could 'rewind' our brains, allowing for more dynamic thinking.
lowers the mental barriers that constrain our thoughts. , a PhD candidate at Cornell University in New York who was involved in the study. “But if you take that filtering and suppression away, you are looking at the world with new eyes. You get a totally new perspective.”, Singleton and his colleagues analyzed fMRI brain scans of people on both placebos and LSD. They observed four distinct patterns of activity that the brains switched between.
In the new paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, the researchers further explain how a particular receptor called According to the Rebus model of psychedelics, tested during the research, the brain acts as a prediction engine. It interprets new information based on prior experiences and beliefs. Under LSD though, that changes.
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