Comments on: This is your brain on magic mushrooms

By: gordon paki

gordon paki — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:33:28 +0000

Would like to participate. I wonder if playing some music with the same bpm as the sound of the mri would help?

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:13:42 +0000

Strange that by closing down certain brain parts or restricting activity. You feel more open and receptivity for your self and environment.

@Roger Springfield Good choice!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:42:20 +0000

I also wonder if the decreased blood flow can lead to brain damage.

By: infomagicain

infomagicain — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:44:06 +0000

me me i do i do!!

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:18:15 +0000

Dirk: yes, I have a Sennheiser PXC450, the best, but not MRI-compatible.

By: DirkH

DirkH — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:13:51 +0000

Oh come on. Buy them a Sennheiser headphone. active+passive dampening = 55dB. Works like a charm. I own one. 350 Euros.

By: Joel McKenna

Joel McKenna — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:39:35 +0000

It sounds to me like medical examiners are forcing a reboot on the experiemented group’s wetware and simply doing benchmark tests like a cpu manufacturer might do to validate the work.

By: Zouyen

Zouyen — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:38:24 +0000

A lab experiment with psilocybin? Sounds like a wonderful idea. A little mind exploration doesn’t hurt on occasion. I’d like to help further research into psychedelic substances if possible. I believe that all substances should be researched and possible benefits analyzed, at least to the point where we can definitively say what the substances are capable of doing.

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:04:28 +0000

Is no one else concerned that neural blood flow was decreased during the experiment? And what were the participants’ dosages? Perhaps blood flow was decreased in the DMN because it was allowed to increase in other areas of the brain, but that doesn’t seem to be what the article is implying. Like, wtf, Brain Damage, anyone?

By: sam hahn

sam hahn — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:42:53 +0000

I’d take that test. i’ve had some pretty intense revelatory experiences with psilocybin. it has great potential as a psycho-therapeutic drug.

By: JMD

JMD — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:52:04 +0000

Sign me up… I could use another “reset”

By: bert

bert — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:27:02 +0000

This sounds more like propaganda to me, psilocybin mushrooms have been ised for thoudands and thousands of years, I won’t get too much into the molecular structure of psi. But it resembles serotonin. Terence Mckenna, who spoke about the psychedelic experience for most of his career wrote a book called True Hallucinations, for those interested.

By: Conrad Green

Conrad Green — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:35:11 +0000

how much yall paying?

By: wanderlust

wanderlust — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:47:02 +0000

I wonder how this might relate to the “experience” of those in deep meditation. Zen monks don’t appear to hallucinate when they cut themselves off from “reality” during mediation.

By: Khannea Suntzu

Khannea Suntzu — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:37:58 +0000

Living in the Netherlands it is legal to get mine. I get Teh Shroom on the best of seratonin infused warm summer days at a place called euphoria.nl. Join me for a guided tour. The San Pedro they have here wasn’t bad, the Peyote a bit sharp and I have an LSD supplier at 4 euro a tab.

Twice a year is nice, summers only. Any more gets too “angsty”. Happy to organize study trips! They even have a Church dedicated to serious ayehuasca here. Perfectly legal causes no discernible trouble. Soccer+beer causes thousands of times more drama if you ask me. But that doesn’t enlighten people.

Meh :)

By: gawells

gawells — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:38:54 +0000

mutual ingestion becomes mutual digestion
as the indi equalizes, so commences gestation

By: marty weiss

marty weiss — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:58:13 +0000

The conscious mind normally screens out all or most of the extraneous information coming from all your senses so you can concentrate and focus on tasks/status, etc. Psilocybin acts to restrict that screening process so as to bring normally unconscious data to the conscious attention. The “hallucinogenic” perceptions are artifacts of one’s sensing apparatus which normally go unnoticed. My understanding of this is that hallucinogens restrict secretion of serotonin, the screening agent. Interestingly (and ironically), most common anti-depressive drugs actually increase serotonin levels and perception of “reality”, even though that extraneous information tends to enhance perception and feelings of well-being which decrease depressive states, and due to nature/nurture, it is precisely that reality which is depressing. In some candidates, a (very) small dose of psilocybin might be a better anti-depressive than current therapies.

By: Debra McCawley-O'Brien

Debra McCawley-O'Brien — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:20:12 +0000

I’ve been having an issue for a couple of months now with posting articles to Facebook. The bottom of the screen/posting is missing. ???????

By: Roger Springfield

Roger Springfield — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:33:51 +0000

I want to volunteer.