A Fascinating New Study Shows the Actual Effects of LSD on Your Brain
Candace Napier
Just in time for festival season, scientists have released the first-ever study looking at what actually happens to your brain when you’re on LSD?and it’s fascinating.
After injecting 20 mentally and physically healthy people either with 75 micrograms of LSD each or a placebo, hooking them up to a brain scan for 75 minutes, and asking them to close their eyes, researchers discovered that volunteers on the hallucinogenic actually showed evidence of increased activity in the primary visual cortex?the region of the brain linked with sight. This suggests that LSD users (who, remember, had their eyes shut) were “seeing” without actually seeing.
The study’s lead neuroscientist Robin Carhart-Harris from Imperial College London explained that this basically offers a biological perspective on what a trip really looks like, suggesting that study volunteers were ?seeing with their eyes shut.? [T]hey were seeing things from their imagination rather than from the outside world,? he said in a statement. Also of note: Volunteers on the drug showed increased activity across the entire brain, with areas actually working in tandem that wouldn’t under typical circumstances, which researchers could say explain the drug-induced phenomenon of hallucination.
?We found that under LSD, compared to placebo, disparate regions in the brain communicate with each other when they don?t normally do so,? David Nutt, a coauthor on the st...
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