Psilocybin Brain Rewiring is Activity Dependant. Inactive Regions are Untouched

[TheBG]

I wanted to share this video (the study is linked in the description) that goes over a new scientific breakthrough on how psilocybin precisely rewires the brain.

Don't let his conclusions in this video be your own, but it was a cool watch. I am going through the study now. His video was brief.

"One of the most important results from the study is this: only brain regions that are active during the psilocybin experience undergo lasting rewiring. Inactive regions do not change. That finding has major implications for mental health treatment, psychotherapy, and our understanding of how perception, mood, and identity are shaped at the neural level."

Check it out. What are your thoughts?

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Edited 13 hours ago by TheBG
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[Carl-Richard]

This is consistent with how administering dopaminergic drugs strengthens the pathways that were active prior to administering.

It could be as simple as the fact that when you experience something during the trip, or you have an insight or breakthrough or drastic change in perspective, that is what was active during the trip, and given the lasting changes that such deep experiences can bring, that is what was changed.

With dopamine, it reflects experiences of significance, so you will remember such events better and be more likely to think about them in the future (and hence addictions can occur), hence your brain rewires to be more likely to fire those particular neural circuits in the future.

The brain and experience (or "mind" more generally, which might involve unconscious, sub-, pre- or periconscious processes) are just mirrors; you will always find a cause explaining one of the coin from the other side of the coin, but the cause is both ways, not just brain to experience (in fact, there is only correlation, but we can speak of causation in a certain sense).

Edited 11 hours ago by Carl-Richard