Harvard To Study Psychedelic Drugs Again

“Michael K. Pollan, a professor in the Harvard English Department and author of the 2018 book “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence,” draws on an analogy with snow to explain psychedelics’ effect on the DMN. Pollan’s book quotes Mendel Kaelen, a Dutch researcher, who explains that the DMN forges pathways akin to those we create while sledding down a hill. Over time, as more sledders go down the hill, ruts form, drawing sledders in like gravity. They make getting down the hill easier and quicker, but restrict motion in other directions. Suppressing DMN activity by taking psychedelics is like taking the first tracks through unforged snow, allowing individuals to buck habitual patterns of thought and create new pathways.”

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https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/19/psychedelics-tentative-renaissance/?fbclid=IwAR0rkoQqcIQ7uizMBg1loj9S4Z5jCLHXqmy6ZCAsZfT28bC6XfkgsjcfGyM