Samuel Freesun Friedman

Trips and neurotransmitters: Discovering principled patterns across 6850 hallucinogenic experiences.

Science Advances March 16, 2022 Galen Ballentine, Samuel Freesun Friedman, Danilo Bzdok 66 citations

Psychedelics probably alter states of consciousness by disrupting how the higher association cortex governs bottom-up sensory signals. Individual hallucinogenic drugs are usually studied in participants in controlled laboratory settings. Here, we have explored word usage in 6850 free-form testimonials about 27 drugs through the prism of 40 neurotransmitter receptor subtypes, which were then...