Effects of External Stimulation on Psychedelic State Neurodynamics

• Published in: ACS chemical neuroscience Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 462 - 471
• Main Authors: Mediano, Pedro A. M., Rosas, Fernando E., Timmermann, Christopher, Roseman, Leor, Nutt, David J., Feilding, Amanda, Kaelen, Mendel, Kringelbach, Morten L., Barrett, Adam B., Seth, Anil K., Muthukumaraswamy, Suresh, Bor, Daniel, Carhart-Harris, Robin L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 07.02.2024
• Subjects: psychedelics; complexity; consciousness; neuroscience

Recent findings have shown that psychedelics reliably enhance brain entropy (understood as neural signal diversity), and this effect has been associated with both acute and long-term psychological outcomes, such as personality changes. These findings are particularly intriguing, given that a decreas...