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Do Psychedelics Expand The Mind By Reducing Brain Activity?
sciam.com 1 week, 3 days agoWhat would you see if you could look inside a hallucinating brain? Despite decades of scientific investigation, we still lack a clear understanding of how hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), mescaline, and psilocybin (the main active ingredient in magic mushrooms) work in the brain. Modern science has demonstrated that hallucinogens activate receptors for serotonin, one of the brain’s key chemical messengers. Specifically, of the 15 different serotonin receptors, the 2A subtype (5
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Could Long Commutes Be Making Us Fat?
forbes.com 1 day agoMatt Yglesias suggests that it does My Moneybox predecessor Annie Lowrey did a great piece a while back reviewing some of the literature on the terrible consequences of long commutes, and now a new study gives us even more. It shows that when you control for sociodemographic characteristics, smoking, alcohol intake, family history of diabetes, ...









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