New Research Shows How Psychedelics Expand and Amplify Sections of the Brain
If you do some research about what people experience when they consume “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelics, you will come across expressions along the lines of “going on a trip.” The psychedelic experience users have has to do with how the substances affect the regions of the brain associated with dreaming, and now scientists have done research showing how this happens. The study, which was published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, relied on volunteers who were injected with psilocybin (a psychedelic chemical found in magic mushrooms). The brains of these study subjects were then scanned to analyze the regions…
