“The brain under the influence of LSD remembers the state when we were kids: free and unrestricted” says research led by Robin Carhart of Imperial College London
Regeneration, 13 April 2016.- After 40 years, again a scientist was authorized to try LSD in humans, it is Robin Carhart-Harris, a researcher at Imperial College London, who found that the substance back to the brain more complete.
This drug integrates parts of the brain that normally separate functions, for example, vision and movement, creating a more unified brain, the researchers, who also found that people who have induced hallucinations by drugs come with other parts of the brain, not only with the visual cortex, which is activated with normal vision.
Precisely these effects could explain the religious feelings that people often report after ingested the drug, which, if true, would answer some of the most profound questions about the drug culture, in addition to the impact on the welfare of a person may endure long after the effects of LSD are gone.
Our brain usually consists of independent networks that perform specialized functions separately, vision, movement, hearing and other more complex as attention, Robin Carhart Harris said in a statement. “However, under the LSD this capacity networks work separately breaks and instead we see a more integrated or unified brain.”
“Our results suggest that this effect underlies the deep state of altered consciousness that people describe during an LSD experience. It also relates to what people sometimes call ‘egodisolución’, which means that the normal sense of self is broken and is replaced by a sense of reconnection with themselves, with others and with the natural world.
sometimes this experience is part of religious or spiritual form, and appears to be associated with improvements in welfare after the drug effects have become extinct. “
When the restrictions are broken that kept separate parts of the brain, psychedelic drugs returned to the user to a state of “childhood,” the researchers write in a paper published in the Annals (Proceedings) of the National Academy of Science of the United States.
our brain is divided into compartments as we grow and last from childhood to adulthood, so, we become more focused and rigid in our thinking as we mature, says Dr. Carhart-Harris.
“in many ways, the brain under the influence of LSD remembers the state when we were kids: free and without restrictions.”, he notes
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These effects can be stimulated even further with the use of music, according to results of the study were published in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology.
Hear music under the influence of LSD causes visual cortex receives information from the part of the brain that usually handles mental imagery and memory, the more I did, the more reported people have complex visions, even earlier periods of his life.
Meanwhile, professor David Nutt, director of neurosicofarmacología at Imperial College London and a former adviser to the British government on drugs, besides being one of the principal investigators of the project, said: “scientists have waited 50 years for this moment: the revelation of how LSD alters brain biology. For the first time we can see what actually happens in the brain in sicodélico state, and we can better understand why LSD had such a profound impact on self-awareness in users, as well as music and art. This could have major implications for psychiatry and to help patients overcome conditions such as depression, “said
Nutt was sacked as chairman of the advisory board on drugs in 2009., After asserting that substances like ecstasy and LSD are less harmful than alcohol or snuff.
These findings may be controversial, as some participants suggested that could show how this substance used to heal and find new forms of knowledge and the time, used to treat psychiatric disorders.
Amanda Feilding, director of the Beckley Foundation, said that “we are finally discovering the brain mechanisms underlying the potential of LSD, not only to heal, but also to deepen our understanding of consciousness itself. “
the research was based on observing 20 volunteers who received both LSD, as placebo and which were diagnosed as psychologically and physically healthy.
With information The Independent.
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