A UC Berkeley research center seeks to understand why psilocybin alters the visual experience in a study with human subjects.
The study marks UC Berkeley's first experiments on humans with a Schedule I substance â those which the federal government considers to have no currently accepted medical use. The drug appears in select mushrooms, often dubbed 'shrooms' or ' magic mushrooms ,' according to the National Institutes of Health.Upon ingestion, psilocybin can warp users' sense of time, mood and perception, leading them to see or hear things that are not real.
The hypothesis suggests psilocybin's perception-altering qualities work by loosening users' deeply rooted beliefs about how the world should appear and, thus, make them more open to alternative ways of interpreting stimuli, he added.To research the drug, Silver said volunteers ingest a dose of psilocybin and enter a magnetic resonance scanner. With the scanner, researchers can monitor volunteers' brain activity as they respond to images presented by staff.
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