Psilocybin Seems to Turn Down 'Ego Center' in Brain

[Judi Lynn]

Psilocybin Seems to Turn Down ‘Ego Center’ in Brain

By Traci Pedersen
Associate News EditorLast updated: 6 Jun 2020
~ 2 MIN READ

In a new study, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers analyzed the brain scans of people after they took psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic (magic) mushrooms, to see what happens in the brain when people are on psychedelics.

The team focused on a part of the brain known as the claustrum, taken from the Latin word for “hidden or shut away.” The claustrum is an extremely thin sheet of neurons deep within the cortex, yet it reaches out to every other region of the brain.

Its true purpose remains “hidden away” as well, with researchers speculating about its functions. For example, Dr. Francis Crick, the British biologist and neuroscientist who proposed the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, believed that the claustrum was the seat of consciousness, responsible for awareness and sense of self.

What is known is that this region contains a large number of receptors targeted by psychedelic drugs such as LSD or psilocybin.

More:
https://psychcentral.com/news/2020/06/06/psilocybin-seems-to-turn-down-ego-center-in-brain/157165.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Let's get MF45 to try it.

[cstanleytech]

2. You would need an aircraft carrier size dose to treat his self inflated ego.

[Blue Owl]

4. There's only one mushroom he cares about

A very little, shameful mushroom...

[Newest Reality]

5. He would literally freak out...

His ego may be all that he knows. There is no certainty that he would experience ego transcendence because set and setting, plus the understanding that you have to let go and let it happen is essential.

Resisting can take one to hell quickly. While even that could be a crux or threshold for breakthrough, being totally invested in one's ego at that point can lead to a psychotic state either temporary or long-term.

One has to cooperate with the experience and know what is taking place without analyzing it, etc. I guess surrender is a good term here.

[SCantiGOP]

6. Trump takes this daily

Have you ever seen one of his press conferences?

[Warpy]

8. It wouldn't do a thing but make him feel out of control

and that would make him more paranoid and meaner.

He doesn't have a strong ego. Put him alone into a room, it looks like somebody let the air out of him. He's not truly alive unless he can see himself reflected by other people.

He's a malignant narcissist. I've never seen psychedelics do anything good for them.

[empedocles]

3. JL, you have such great range. Thank you.

More prosaicly, magic mushrooms have long been a curiosity item. Now supplement demand for them is growing, along with nootropics and peptides.

Bloomberg reported in April, [sorry site wouldn't let me copy], that Paypal theil is investing in a German company working with the psilocybin issues.

[LakeArenal]

7. Done a bit of research on mushrooms over the years.

My findings have yet to be published.
Or written.
Or remembered.