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UrduResearchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, destabilizes a critical network of brain areas involved in introspective thinking. The findings provide a neurobiological explanation for the drug’s mind-bending effects.
Tag: Brain Network
Inequality linked to differences in kids’ brain connections
Growing up in a socioeconomically disadvantaged household may have lasting effects on children’s brain development, a large new study suggests. Compared with children from more-advantaged homes and neighborhoods, children from families with fewer resources have different patterns of connections between their brain’s many regions and networks by the time they’re in upper grades of elementary school.
One socioeconomic factor stood out in the study as more important to brain development than others: the number of years of education a child’s parents have.
Which Types of Brain Activity Support Conscious Experiences?
Our subjective experience appears to us in a continuous stream of integrated information, and in Chaos, researchers explore the question: Which characteristics should brain activity have to support this type of conscious experiences?