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Jan 2012 Neuroimaging Study
Neural Correlates of the Psychedelic State as Determined by fMRI Studies With Psilocybin
Carhart-Harris RL, Erritzoe D, Williams T, et al. — Imperial College London
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Psilocybin Neuroimaging
One of the first modern neuroimaging studies of psilocybin — 30 volunteers scanned with task-free fMRI after IV psilocybin or placebo. Counterintuitively, psilocybin decreased blood flow and activity in brain hub regions (thalamus, cingulate cortex) rather than increasing it, reshaping how researchers think about what a psychedelic actually does to the brain.
Read the Full Paper at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences