Neuroscientists Reveal How Magic Mushrooms Work on the Brain

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Neuroscientists Reveal How Magic Mushrooms Work on the Brain

"Siegel (the study author) et al. provide compelling evidence that desynchronized brain activity underlies the acute psychedelic state and might contribute to persistent changes in neural activity in brain regions that are responsible for controlling a person's sense of self, emotions and life-narrative," Petros Petridis, a psychedelics researcher at NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine, said in an accompanying News & Views article also published in Nature."

"These days, we know a lot about the psychological effects and the molecular/cellular effects of psilocybin," study author Joshua S. Siegel, a psychiatry researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a statement. "But we don't know much about what happens at the level that connects the two — the level of functional brain networks."