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Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All into Dopamine Addicts

By Jamie Waters — 2021

According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...

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Neuroscience News
2022
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Pseudo-Hallucinations: Why Some People See More Vivid Mental Images than Others—Test Yourself Here

Ganzflicker is known to elicit the experience of anomalous sensory information in the external environment, called pseudo-hallucinations.

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Reshanne Reeder
2021
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What Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Teaching Us About Human Consciousness

Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.

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Iris Kulbatski
2020
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Scientists Say A Mind-Bending Rhythm In The Brain Can Act Like Ketamine

In mice and one person, scientists were able to reproduce the altered state often associated with ketamine by inducing certain brain cells to fire together in a slow, rhythmic fashion.

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Jon Hamilton
2020
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Scientists Look At The Strange "Half-Dead" State Of Meditating Buddhist Monks

In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s a mystical concept known as “thukdam” or “tukdam,” in which an experienced meditator can slip into a state of mind said to be accessible at the time of death.

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Tom Hale
2021
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A Psychotherapeutic View on the Therapeutic Effects of Ritual Ayahuasca Use in the Treatment of Addiction

In an appropriate context, ayahuasca can be a valuable therapeutic tool and can act as a catalyst that can render psychotherapeutic processes more effective in less time, and sometimes allow for critical interventions when several other therapeutic strategies have been unsuccessful.

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Anja Loizaga-Velder
2013
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