UNC Libraries
April 22, 2020
Peter J. Hellyer, Luke T. J. Williams, Ben Sessa et al.
1 citation
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), the prototypical “psychedelic,” may be unique among psychoactive substances. In the decades that followed its discovery, the magnitude of its effect on science, the arts, and society was unprecedented. LSD produces profound, sometimes life-changing experiences in microgram doses, making it a particularly powerful scientific tool. Here we sought to examine its...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
June 25, 2017
Mendel Kaelen, Romy Lorenz, Frederick S. Barrett et al.
20 citations
preprint
Abstract Music is a highly dynamic stimulus, and consists of distinct acoustic features, such as pitch, rhythm and timbre. Neuroimaging studies highlight a hierarchy of brain networks involved in music perception. Psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) temporary disintegrate the normal hierarchy of brain functioning, and produce profound subjective effects, including...
Journal of Vision
September 1, 2016
Leor Roseman, Martin I. Sereno, Robert Leech et al.
4 citations
ABSTRACT Introduction: The question of how spatially-organized activity in the visual cortex behaves during eyes-closed, LSD-induced, visual psychedelic imagery has never been empirically addressed, although it has been proposed that under psychedelics the brain may function "as if" there is visual input when there is none (de Araujo, et al., 2012). We suspected that eyes-closed psychedelic...
Hum Brain Mapp
April 29, 2016
Leor Roseman, Martin I. Sereno, Robert Leech et al.
63 citations
The question of how spatially organized activity in the visual cortex behaves during eyes-closed, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)-induced "psychedelic imagery" (e.g., visions of geometric patterns and more complex phenomena) has never been empirically addressed, although it has been proposed that under psychedelics, with eyes-closed, the brain may function "as if" there is visual input when...
Curr Biol
April 13, 2016
Enzo Tagliazucchi, Leor Roseman, Mendel Kaelen et al.
531 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a non-selective serotonin-receptor agonist that was first synthesized in 1938 and identified as (potently) psychoactive in 1943. Psychedelics have been used by indigenous cultures for millennia [1]; however, because of LSD's unique potency and the timing of its discovery (coinciding with a period of major discovery in psychopharmacology), it is generally...
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol
April 12, 2016
Mendel Kaelen, Leor Roseman, Joshua Kahan et al.
143 citations
Psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) were used extensively in psychiatry in the past and their therapeutic potential is beginning to be re-examined today. Psychedelic psychotherapy typically involves a patient lying with their eyes-closed during peak drug effects, while listening to music and being supervised by trained psychotherapists. In this context, music is...
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
April 11, 2016
Robin Carhart-Harris, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Leor Roseman et al.
887 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is the prototypical psychedelic drug, but its effects on the human brain have never been studied before with modern neuroimaging. Here, three complementary neuroimaging techniques: arterial spin labeling (ASL), blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) measures, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), implemented during resting state conditions, revealed marked changes in...