Neural Correlates of the Shamanic State of Consciousness
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience March 18, 2021 Emma R. Huels, Hyoungkyu Kim, UnCheol Lee et al. 51 citations
Psychedelics have been recognized as model interventions for studying altered states of consciousness. However, few empirical studies of the shamanic state of consciousness, which is anecdotally similar to the psychedelic state, exist. We investigated the neural correlates of shamanic trance using high-density electroencephalography (EEG) in 24 shamanic practitioners and 24 healthy controls...