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We now know what a brain looks like on psilocybin – but what does that tell us?

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par Michiel van Elk, Associate Professor, Cognitive Psychology, Leiden University

Many studies have suggested that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, might be useful in treating a variety of mental health conditions. But we don’t really know what’s going on at the level of “functional brain networks” – the communication pathways that connect different regions of the brain.

To get a better understanding of this, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis scanned seven healthy participants’ brains multiple times, before, during and after…

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