'This has significant clinical implications because it suggests that psilocybin could make the brain more malleable,' psychedelics expert Petros Petridis said.
Scientists have figured out why magic mushrooms make you have weird and wacky hallucinations.Psilocybin, one of the psychoactive ingredients in magic mushrooms, impacts a region of the brain associated with daydreaming, remembering and other introspective thinking, according to a new paper in the journal Nature. The effects it has on the brain may last for weeks, the paper reveals.
'The idea is that you're taking this system that's fundamental to the brain's ability to think about the self in relation to the world, and you're totally desynchronizing it temporarily,' Siegel said. 'In the short term, this creates a psychedelic experience. The longer-term consequence is that it makes the brain more flexible and potentially more able to come into a healthier state.
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