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This systematic review looked at how classic psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca) change activity in the brain’s Default Mode Network (DMN). The studies commonly found an acute disruption of connectivity inside the DMN and more communication between other resting‑state brain networks during the drug experience. The authors note these DMN changes…
The authors built the Altered States Database (ASDB), a public collection of questionnaire answers about people’s experiences in altered states of consciousness. They pulled data from scientific articles, checked them using a standard review method, and put the raw questionnaire results online so anyone can view and compare them. The…
