Hacker News with Generative AI: Psychedelics

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.

Neuroscience, Psychedelics, Brain Science, Consciousness

12 points by ahiknsr 11 days ago | 0 comments

Human brain changes after first psilocybin use (biorxiv.org)
Psychedelics have robust effects on acute brain function and long-term behavior but whether they also cause enduring functional and anatomical brain changes is unknown.

Psychedelics, Neuroscience, Brain, Research

54 points by XzetaU8 37 days ago | 27 comments

Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Getting Much, Much Stronger (wired.com)
Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular-manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms—leaving some unprepared psychonauts in distress.

Psychedelics, Science, Drugs, Genetics

7 points by bookofjoe 40 days ago | 12 comments

Psychedelics Reduce Anxiety Without Hallucinations (neurosciencenews.com)
New research has pinpointed the specific brain region and neuron type responsible for reducing anxiety using the psychedelic drug DOI, without triggering hallucinations.

Psychedelics, Anxiety, Neuroscience, Brain Research

6 points by bookofjoe 47 days ago | 1 comments

Software development for the DMT headspace (smoothbrains.net)
I would hazard a guess that some readers of this blog might already be familiar with the delightful Scott Alexander story, Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person – in which the unnamed protagonist asks a couple of DMT entities to factorise a large integer:

Software Development, Psychedelics, Storytelling

42 points by cube_flipper 55 days ago | 4 comments

Magic mushroom chocolates are having a moment. But do they contain mushrooms? (latimes.com)

Food, Psychedelics, Health, Consumer Products

14 points by PaulHoule 95 days ago | 4 comments

A scientist took a psychedelic drug – and watched his own brain 'fall apart' (npr.org)

Science, Neuroscience, Psychedelics, Drugs

10 points by helsinkiandrew 125 days ago | 1 comments

New study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin (nytimes.com)

Science, Brain, Psilocybin, Psychedelics

7 points by anjel 127 days ago | 1 comments

Mexico may legalize magic mushrooms (latimes.com)