Hacker News with Generative AI: Brain Science

People who are good at reading have different brains: study (theconversation.com)
The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 say they’ve never been readers, according to research by The Reading Agency.
Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics (aspetjournals.org)
This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis.
Ask HN: Hacking your brain after trauma and mental health crisis? (ycombinator.com)
This is very personal, and something I'm trying to figure out. I'm finding executive function hard to come by these days.
Neural manifolds: Latest buzzword or pathway to understand the brain? (thetransmitter.org)
When you cut away the misconceptions, neural manifolds present a conceptually appropriate level at which systems neuroscientists can study the brain.
Rethinking addiction as a chronic brain disease (nytimes.com)
China Brain (wikipedia.org)
Mind-Reading and Neuroplasticity: In Conversation with Neurologist Pascual-Leone (mitpress.mit.edu)
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) (news.mit.edu)