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Psychedelics & Chronic Pain
The injury healed long ago - and the agony continues, because much chronic pain is a pattern the brain has learned. This deep dive covers how psychedelics engage descending pain control and reset the maladaptive connectivity that sustains it (Castellanos et al., 2020), with early signals from cluster headache to phantom limbs…
Psychedelics & Time Perception
Minutes stretch into hours; the present swells until it swallows past and future whole. This deep dive covers why: how psilocybin measurably distorts the brain's internal clock (Wittmann et al., 2007), why your sense of time is built from the felt signals of your own body, and why timelessness may be part of how psychedelics heal…
The Mystical Experience
The single strongest predictor of whether a psychedelic session heals isn't the dose - it's the mystical-type experience. This deep dive covers the landmark Griffiths (2006) trial, the MEQ30 that quantifies unity and ineffability (Barrett et al., 2015), and why intensity predicts healing…
Psychedelics & Music
Why is there always a curated playlist in psychedelic therapy? Because music is a co-therapist. This deep dive covers how LSD amplifies the emotional response to music (Kaelen et al., 2015), deepens music-evoked imagery, and why patients call music 'the hidden therapist' that…
Psychedelics, BDNF & Psychoplastogens
Psychedelics may heal by physically rewiring the brain. This deep dive covers the molecular engine: how a single dose grows new dendritic spines and synapses in the cortex (Ly et al., 2018), the BDNF-TrkB-mTOR pathway that acts like…
Psychedelics & Fear Extinction
Fear extinction is how the brain learns that a threat is now safe - the exact process that trauma therapy tries to rebuild. This deep dive covers how psychedelics supercharge it: how low-dose psilocybin sped the extinction of…
Psychedelics & the Immune System
Psychedelics don't just act on the mind - they may be some of the most potent anti-inflammatory molecules ever measured. This deep dive covers the surprising immune side of the 5-HT2A receptor: how the psychedelic (R)-DOI blocks…
The Entropic Brain
Why does a psychedelic loosen the self, spark insight, and lift depression? One elegant theory ties it all together: the entropic brain. This deep dive explains Robin Carhart-Harris's idea that the richness of consciousness tracks the…
Psychedelics & Creativity
Do psychedelics make you more creative? The myth is huge - and the science is more careful than the legend. This deep dive covers the landmark 1966 study where engineers and architects solved months-old problems on mescaline (Harman &…
The Gut-Brain Axis
Most of the body's serotonin isn't in the brain - it's in the gut, made by an enteric nervous system so complex it's called the 'second brain.' Psilocybin is a serotonin agonist, and serotonin receptors line the gut too, which means a…
The Neuroscience of the Afterglow
For days or weeks after a psychedelic experience, many people feel lighter, calmer, more open and more connected - a subacute period researchers call the 'afterglow.' It is not just a good mood. This deep dive covers what the…
The Genius of Ayahuasca
Swallowed on its own, DMT does nothing - the gut enzyme MAO destroys it before it can reach the brain. Ayahuasca solves that with a second plant: the Banisteriopsis caapi vine carries harmala alkaloids that switch the enzyme off, so…
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