The Foundations of Well-Being: A year of Growing Good in Your Brain and In Your Life.
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If your ego had a "location" in the brain, it would be the default mode network, where much of your self-critical mind chatter happens. Taking psychedelics down-regulates this brain network.
For the first time ever, scientists scanned a brain on LSD using modern technology. What they saw was a more "unified brain." In the experiment, researchers scanned dozens of participants with a fMRI machine. Once after being injected with 75 micrograms of LSD and a second time with salt water.
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