Erik Viirre

Psychedelics and the quantum brain: a falsifiable hypothesis on Posner molecules and spin-dependent pharmacology.

Frontiers in Pharmacology 2026 Joseph Geraci, Erik Viirre, Bessi Qorri et al.

Classical serotonergic psychedelics (e.g., LSD, psilocybin, DMT) alter perception and neuroplasticity primarily via 5-HT2A receptor activation and downstream Ca2+-dependent signaling cascades. Here we propose a speculative yet falsifiable pharmacological hypothesis that these drug-induced biochemical cascades might interface with quantum-mechanical processes in the brain. We focus on nuclear...