This Is the Brain on LSD

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 12:42
It's All in Your Mind
Barbara Speed, New Statesman

…a team from Imperial College and the Beckley Foundation (which is dedicated to the study of consciousness and reforming drug policy) has released the first images of the brain on LSD produced since the clamp-down over half a century ago.

Volunteers were administered a 75 microgram dose of LSD or a placebo, then their brains were analysed using two types of MRI scan and an MEG, which detects brain waves.…

…results concretely link anecdotal experiences of LSD with measurable brain activity for the first time, but they could also open the door to uses of LSD in medicine.…

Been known since 1938, studied extensively - until banned - in the 1960s, and only now being studied for brain chemistry.
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MJA, IOTW Report
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