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The Neuroscience of Disconnection

2019

With a neuroscience lens, Erica Peng, Faculty at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, explains what's happening in our brain and body in moments of conflict and disconnection, and one strategy for how we can make our way back to connection.

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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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2019
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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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Disconnection