Here's the latest neuroscientific research on low doses of the psychedelic LSD and my recent study published in the journal "Neuropsychopharmacology."
After high, hallucinogenic doses of LSD, there are increases in the complexity or entropy of brain signals.to help us understand how humans gain deeper insight and observation into themselves, life, and being during altered states of consciousness.When I graduated with a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2019, I completed my thesis on synaptic plasticity in preclinical models of cocaine and methamphetamine. I was eager to pursue work on humans.
However, neural complexity, a.k.a. brain entropy, has not been empirically tested to explain the origin of altered state effects. It was unknown whether increases in complexity might arise from other drugs that similarly induce altered states of consciousness, such as THC, or similarly increase arousal, such as methamphetamine.
While the higher of the two low LSD doses tested was just high enough to elicit some self-reported effects , it was not high enough for participants to feel as if they were in an altered state. Participants did report feeling some effects of the drug, including feelings of elation andHowever, the low doses of LSD also reduced low-frequency delta and theta brainwave oscillations, which did correlate with the increased elation.
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