Scientists pinpoint psilocybin’s mind-altering effects using MRI
The psychedelic distorts the functional brain network, US researchers say.
‘Magic mushrooms’ achieve their psychedelic effects by temporarily scrambling a brain network involved in introspective thinking like daydreaming and remembering, a new study reports.
Brain scans of people who took psilocybin — the psychedelic found in ‘shrooms — revealed that the substance causes profound and widespread temporary changes to the brain’s default mode network.
