Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain | Nature
Jul 17, 2024 · Here we tracked individual-specific brain changes with longitudinal precision functional mapping (roughly 18 magnetic resonance imaging visits per participant).
This is a healthy brain on psilocybin - CNN
Jul 17, 2024 · The new study uses multiple brain scans to illustrate how psilocybin may make connections in the brain more malleable, thus helping people overcome “rigid maladaptive patterns” of thought and...
This is your brain on drugs: How psilocybin can trigger ... - NPR
Jul 18, 2024 · Scientists scanned the brains of people who took psilocybin, including a member of the research team. The scans showed how the drug disrupts key networks, potentially enhancing brain...
Psilocybin Rewires the Brain for People with Depression
Apr 11, 2022 · Psilocybin fosters greater connections between different regions of the brain in depressed people, freeing them up from long-held patterns of rumination and excessive self-focus, according to a new study by scientists at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London.
Psilocybin desynchronizes brain networks - PMC
Psilocybin disrupted connectivity across cortical networks and subcortical structures, producing more than 3-fold greater acute changes in functional networks than methylphenidate. These changes were driven by desynchronization of brain …
Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin ... - Nature
Apr 11, 2022 · Psilocybin therapy shows antidepressant potential, but its therapeutic actions are not well understood. We assessed the subacute impact of psilocybin on brain function in two clinical trials...
Magic Mushrooms’ Effects Illuminated in Brain Imaging Studies
Jan 23, 2012 · Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work.
Magic mushroom compound increases brain connectivity in …
Apr 11, 2022 · Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, helps to “open up” depressed people’s brains, even weeks after use, a study has found. These are the findings of a new analysis of brain scans from close to 60 people receiving treatment for depression, led by Imperial College London’s Centre for Psychedelic Research .
Magic mushrooms may 'reset' the brains of depressed patients
Oct 13, 2017 · The findings come from a study in which researchers from Imperial College London used psilocybin – the psychoactive compound that occurs naturally in magic mushrooms – to treat a small number of patients with depression in whom conventional treatment had failed.
Magic mushrooms' effects illuminated in brain imaging studies
Jan 24, 2012 · Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work.