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UC Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic science and education

Sep 15, 2020

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From UC Berkeley News: With $1.25 million in seed funding from an anonymous donor, the new UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics will conduct research using psychedelics to investigate cognition, perception and emotion and their biological bases in the human brain. The center is also developing a program for educating the public about…

Here’s What Your Brain Looks Like On Psilocybin

Mar 30, 2020

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Jason Karimi, WeedPress Contributor

in Current Events, Science

Image from Journal of The Royal Society Publishing Homological scaffolds of brain functional networks G Petri 2014 Business Insider: Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, sprouts new links across previously disconnected brain regions, the study found, temporarily altering the brain’s entire organizational framework. The data visualization below (b) shows how these new connections…

Just Say No To Microdosing?

Feb 19, 2020

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Jason Karimi, WeedPress Contributor

in Current Events, Science

Read why microdosing could be perverting a sacred sacrament into a corporate capitalist culture driven tool instead: Double Blind has a subversive perspective about psychedelic medicines ayahuasca, magic mushrooms and LSD.