Thursday, March 19, 2020

Psilocybin and Emotions

Emotional Adjustment: The Modulatory Influence of Psilocybin on the Amygdala

Psilocybin appears to modulate responses to emotional material in ways that are not currently understood.  Psilocybin "aggravates" the amygdala, in a way that would predict negative outcomes, while simultaneously decreasing the amygdala's connections to the prefrontal cortex, the latter seeming to be more important in this equation.

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