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How psychedelic drug psilocybin works on brain:
What is known is that this region contains a large number of receptors targeted by psychedelic drugs such as LSD or psilocybin ¾ the hallucinogenic chemical found in certain mushrooms. To see what happens in the claustrum when people are on psychedelics, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers compared the brain scans of people after they took psilocybin with their scans after taking a placebo.
Their findings were published online on May 23, 2020, in the journal NeuroImage.
The scans after psilocybin use showed that the claustrum was less active, meaning the area of the brain believed responsible for setting attention and switching tasks is turned down when on the drug. The researchers say that this ties in with what people report as typical effects of psychedelic drugs, including feelings of being connected to everything and reduced senses of self or ego.
"Our findings move us one step closer to understanding mechanisms underlying how psilocybin works in the brain," says Frederick Barrett, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the school's Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. "This will hopefully enable us to better understand why it's an effective therapy for certain psychiatric disorders, which might help us tailor therapies to help people more."
Frederick S. Barrett, Samuel R. Krimmel, Roland Griffiths, David A. Seminowicz, Brian N. Mathur. Psilocybin acutely alters the functional connectivity of the claustrum with brain networks that support perception, memory, and attention. NeuroImage, 2020; 116980 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116980
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @04:04PM (1 child)
As you can see, after they decriminalized psylocybin, the State has been completely destroyed.
Covid-19 is in fact God's punishment for legalization of cannabis in so many States, as well as all those hurricanes for legalizing gays. He's such a busy beaver.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @07:20PM
Yep. That imaginary sky daddy sure is a busy beaver -- well except for whole "imaginary" thing.
You'd think that after 50,000 years we could have better imaginary sky daddies. It's a lack of imagination, if you ask me. Especially when a college student [wikipedia.org] can come up with a more interesting one in a few minutes as a rebuttal to the morons [wikipedia.org].
And, for the record, a special fuck you to L. Ron Hubbard [wikipedia.org] -- for a sci-fi writer, you were an unimaginative hack. As the inventor of a "religion," [wikipedia.org] you were even worse -- well, except for the profitability part.