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Jul 1, 2026 Psychedelics
Stanford Is Testing Psilocybin Under Anesthesia — To See What the Trip Was Actually For
A new Stanford trial, SPACE, will give psilocybin to people under general anesthesia — masking the subjective experience entirely — while tracking brain activity on EEG. It's small, ten participants, and hasn't started recruiting. But it's aimed at the field's open question: how much of psilocybin's effect depends on the trip itself, versus what's happening in the brain underneath it.
Read at ClinicalTrials.gov