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Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses

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By Annie Hopper — 2014

Wired for healing sheds light on how trauma causes the brain to disorganize neural circuits and shares triumphant stories of recovery of people who have been liberated from chronic and mysterious illnesses through remapping the brain.

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How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan | Big Think

If your ego had a "location" in the brain, it would be the default mode network, where much of your self-critical mind chatter happens. Taking psychedelics down-regulates this brain network.

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Mind Molding Psychedelic Drugs Could Treat Depression, and Other Mental Illnesses

It seems that psychedelics do more than simply alter perception. According to the latest research from my colleagues and me, they change the structures of neurons themselves.

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The First Modern Images of a Human Brain on LSD

For the first time ever, scientists scanned a brain on LSD using modern technology. What they saw was a more "unified brain." In the experiment, researchers scanned dozens of participants with a fMRI machine. Once after being injected with 75 micrograms of LSD and a second time with salt water.

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For the First Time, Scientists Have Imaged the Brain on LSD

The scientists hope their long-awaited study on LSD in humans will open the floodgates to further research into psychedelics.

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Chronic Health Conditions