How do hallucinogens work on the brain?

Callan Smith-MacDonald @Callan_Smith-Macdonald

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Robin Carhart-Harris, Mendel Kaelen and David Nutt consider a big question

on several levels

Does self-organised activity in the

default mode network underlie our

sense of self or ego?

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