by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 17, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Research
A wide-range of benefits was reported, including: help with mood disorders, addictions and migraine as well as more general long-term improvements in wellbeing. Symptoms of hallucinogen persisting perceptual disorder were reported by a number of subjects and these...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 17, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Research
We found that LSD alters the energy and the power of individual harmonic brain states in a frequency-selective manner. Remarkably, this leads to an expansion of the repertoire of active brain states, suggestive of a general re-organization of brain dynamics given the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 17, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Research
High-level association cortices (partially overlapping with the default-mode, salience, and frontoparietal attention networks) and the thalamus showed increased global connectivity under the drug. The cortical areas showing increased global connectivity overlapped...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 17, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Research
Dynamic causal modelling revealed that both the presentation of novel stimuli and LSD modulate backward extrinsic connectivity within a task-activated fronto-temporal network, as well as intrinsic connectivity in the primary auditory cortex. These findings show...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 17, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Research
Consistent with our prior hypothesis, the difference between RSFC of patches with congruent retinotopic specificity (horizontal-horizontal and vertical-vertical) and those with incongruent specificity (horizontal-vertical and vertical-horizontal) increased...
