This was discovered not very long ago by a researcher in England named Robin Carhart-Harris who was dosing people with psilocybin and LSD and then sliding them into an MRI machine, to take an FMRI a functional magnetic resonance image. But one thing we do know, or we think we know, is that it appears that one particular brain network is deactivated or quieted. And this, you know the neuroscientists say lead to a cascade of effects which is shorthand for don't really know what happens next. What happens after that we don't really know. And that's why the LSD trip can last 12 hours. And they look a lot like serotonin if you look at the molecular models of them and, in fact, LSD fits that receptor site even better than serotonin does and it stays there longer. One is they fit a certain receptor site: the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor. MICHAEL POLLAN: How do these psychedelics work? Well, the honest answer is we don't entirely know, but we know a few things.
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