Nature Neuroscience
July 20, 2026
Zhi-Peng Yu, Zhong-Yu Zhang, Qiong Li et al.
Psychedelics, known for prosocial effects and therapeutic potential in psychiatry, are often first used during adolescence, yet their enduring impact on social behavior and its underlying circuits remain unclear. Here we show that repeated exposure to the serotonergic psychedelic drug 25C-NBOMe during adolescence, but not exposure in adulthood, induced lasting competitive avoidance in male...
Psychopharmacology
June 1, 2023
Zi-Hang Tang, Zhi-Peng Yu, Qiong Li et al.
7 citations
Serotonergic psychedelics show promise in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dysfunction of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFc) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of compulsive behavior, which might be a key region for the efficacy of psychedelics. However, the effects of psychedelics on the neural activities and local excitation/inhibition (E/I)...
Neuropharmacology
April 1, 2023
Zhi-Peng Yu, Qiong Li, Zhou-Xiao Wu et al.
7 citations
Serotoninergic psychedelics induced extensive alterations in perception and cognition, which has been attributable to its disruptive effect on oscillatory rhythms of prefrontal cortex. However, there is a lack of information how serotoninergic psychedelics affect the intra-prefrontal network, which intrinsically interact to accomplish perceptual processing. Uncovering the altered neural network...
Dreaming (New York, N.Y.)
September 1, 2018
Daohua Zhang, Qiong Li, Heyong Shen et al.
The present study is a comparison of dream content between monks and nonreligious respondents, aiming to understand the unconscious of monks, and to further explore the influence of religion on our human mind. The authors interviewed participants to collect dreams and then explored similarities and differences through content analysis. A total of 127 participants reported their dreams, 65 monks...