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Visualized effects of LSD on the brain

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DmnStr8

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Check out this article! Very interesting! Seems to be a lot of psychedelic research going on at the moment. Enjoy!

www.sciencedaily.com

Brain on LSD revealed: First scans show how the drug affects the brain

For the first time, researchers have visualized the effects of LSD on the human brain. In a series of experiments, scientists have gained a glimpse into how the psychedelic compound affects brain activity. The team administered LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) to 20 healthy volunteers in a...
www.sciencedaily.com
 
There are already two (2) threads on this study. Can this thread please be deleted by a moderator or merged with the others?
 
gilga_mesh said:
on CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/04/13/exp-lsd-researcher.cnn
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For those who don't have Flash on their computers:
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That interview was painful to watch. It's a shame the media is still trying so desperately to frame psychedelics in a negative light, even when they're interviewing researches who are telling them "No! That's not the case, that's not how this works!"
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Depends on the interviewer, this was quite good for CNN - next time he should skip the sensationalist idiot and get on Sanjay's couch:

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Btw, funny that CH never took LSD. Hopefully he delved into the lysergic RCs.
 
This sort of flys in the face of the 8 circuit model doesn't it? Unless circuit I and VIII are more intertwined with each other than previously thought, perhaps even temporally parallel relative the lifespan the individual.
 
Yeah, Sanjay is a godsend on CNN compared to the other journalists. But even he's fairly conservative on these issues. I guess a step in the right direction is a good thing though, and certainly better than the opposite.
 
There is a very good analysis of this study (the LSD one in the OP), and critique of the way the media is portraying it.

The LSD study: you're being subtly deceived (again)

The author responded to feedback the very next day:

The LSD study: an author responds

And there is even further excellent discussion on Reddit about it:

Reddit thread

I've only read through the first link and some of the Reddit discussion, but it appears to me what is going on is a high quality, sorely needed discussion on the paradigms from which we view the effects of psychedelics, particularly when we look at it through a scientific lens.

Plus it points out the knee-jerk assumptions that could be drawn (and refuted) from such a study.
 
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