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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Psychology › Psychedelics and Drug Studies

   Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

   Siegel, Subramanian, Perry et al. · Nature · 2024

   Tracking healthy adults with repeated brain scans before, during and after psilocybin and methylphenidate, the study found psilocybin desynchronised brain networks, with lasting changes in a hippocampal–default mode link.

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   1. UncheckedIn healthy adults, a high dose of psilocybin acutely changed brain functional connectivity more than three times as much as methylphenidate did.“Psilocybin massively disrupted functional connectivity (FC) in cortex and subcortex, acutely causing more than threefold greater change than methylphenidate.”
   2. UncheckedIn healthy adults, a high dose of psilocybin lowered connectivity between the front of the hippocampus and the default mode network for weeks afterwards.“Psilocybin caused persistent decrease in FC between the anterior hippocampus and default mode network, lasting for weeks.”

2. Psychology › Psychedelics and Drug Studies

   Empirically validated theoretical analysis of visual-spatial perception under change of nervous system arousal

   Purohit, Dutta and Roy · Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience · 2023

   The paper builds a quantitative model of how arousal-altering drugs change visual-spatial perception and checks it against behavioural studies, brain-tract imaging and a simulated grid-cell network.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report a Hill-equation link between neuromodulator drug concentration and changes in visual-spatial perception, measured using a metric tensor.“We showed a Hill equation based relationship between neuromodulator agent concentration and alteration of visual-spatial perception utilizing the metric tensor to quantify the visual space.”