For the past several decades, psychedelics have been widely stigmatized as dangerous illegal drugs.
Psychedelics arepsychotropic drugs: substances that affect your mental state.
Other types of psychotropics include antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications.
Precisely how psychedelics create these effects, however, is still unclear.
So as researchers inpsychiatryandmachine learning, we were interested in figuring out how these drugs affect the brain.
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Knowing how each psychedelic creates these specific effects in the body can help cliniciansoptimize their therapeutic use.
We found both new links and patterns that confirm whats known in the research literature.
Auditory hallucinations were linked to a number of receptors spread throughout theauditory cortex.
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