New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

A landmark mechanistic study on the visual computational changes under psilocybin. I did my masters internship in Tomas's lab so it's wonderful to see such elegant computational psychedelic neuroscience. Congrats to Marco and co. 🧠🎉🍄

Marco Aqil@marcoaqil.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41... We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵

Check out my talk from ESI-SyNC on the psychedelic effects of breathwork 🧠🍄👇 ESI-SyNC was fantastic, so do check the rest of the talks out too! 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOeV...

Evan Lewis-Healey, PhD, The psychedelic effects of breathwork on the mind and the brain

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Check out this cool new study from the lab -- exploring the neural signatures of pure awareness experiences during Transcendental Meditation 🧠

Andres Canales-Johnson@canalesjohnson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thrilled to share our new study: “Distilling the neurophenomenological signatures of pure awareness during Transcendental Meditation”, combining subjective reports with large-scale screening of neural features to investigate pure awareness. Thread below! 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It was a pleasure to present our findings at the Ernst Strungmann Institute in Frankfurt last week - on the psychedelic effects that breathwork can induce 🧠 A genuine joy to speak amongst heavyweights in the field of the neuroscience of altered states of consciousness!

Always a huge amount of work and thought that goes into these papers -- I'm excited to see what ecologically valid paradigms Micah and co. will develop next in the face of these surprising null results!

Micah G. Allen@micahgallen.com · 11mo ago

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

I think until we start measuring interoception in the wild, close in time to symptoms, we are likely to keep finding this null association. We increasingly think of interoception more as a dynamic, psychophysiological state that is highly subject to contextual manipulation, rather than as a trait.

New preprint! 🧠 Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10). doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior

Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

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In partnership with metapsy.org we built an interactive dashboard for exploring the data. Users can: • Filter studies by characteristics • Test different analysis parameters • Test moderators • Download figures and reports Dashboard: metapsy.org/sypres/psilo...

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I have the pleasure of speaking at ESI-SyNC this year about the neurophenomenology of breathwork and DMT 🧠✨ Do come if you can!

Zero-Noise Lab@zeronoiselab.bsky.social · last yr.

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

Unfortunately I can't make it, but there in academic spirit at @assc28.bsky.social. If you're there, do check out our poster on the dose-dependent neurophenomenology of the psychedelic DMT 👇 @trisbek.bsky.social will be there to answer any q's 🧠 P165 Tuesday @12:30-13:30

Yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis! 🥂 I'm now awaiting on the viva (17th June) to finalise everything, but am looking for job opportunities following this. If you could share this post far and wide, I'd really appreciate it. Below is a (very) brief about me.

Our latest paper on DMT phenomenology, led by Pascal Michael, exploring the mis/matches with near-death experiences, showing that while 95% on DMT had at least one NDE feature, many classic NDE features were absent & only a very few had NDE-like trips in any way. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

I was invited to join as Editorial Board Member of a new @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal Here's why I #declined an uncompensated role in #AcademicPublishing 🧵🧪🧠📈

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour

Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

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How I freed my mind: A quest for meaning and expansion. Michiel van Elk, Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University, on a journey taking in religion and psychedelics. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Michiel van Elk, Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University, on a journey taking in religion and psychedelics.

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Our new paper - the first peer-reviewed brain and phenomenological examination of 5-MeO-DMT is out in Neuro of Consciousness. TLDR: We tested whether ‘the mount Everest’ of psychedelics could induce a complete state of consciousness deconstruction while preserving awareness. 1/n #neuroskyence

Reposting for later but multi-lab studies are certainly the way forward

Alex Kwan@alexkwan.bsky.social · last yr.

A much-needed joint effort from five labs to see which behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice are reliable, and which may be spurious 🐁🍄 @theborislab.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social @indigenerd.bsky.social Vikaas Sohal and Stephan Lammel 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After blowing the whistle on a psychedelic clergy study over 18 months ago, I recently received this letter from Johns Hopkins' Office of Human Subjects Research finding multiple counts of "serious non-compliance" with federal human subject protections. www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/breaking-j...

Breaking: Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Clergy Study Found to Have Multiple Counts of "Serious Non-Compliance" with Federal Human Subject Protections

Unauthorized donor involvement and unauthorized study team members "significantly compromised" human research protection program, per JHU, citing other concerns for participants' rights and welfare.

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The 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. The 2025 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. mpe-project.info/the-mpe-proj...

Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Psilocybin alters visual contextual computations

Psilocybin alters perception and brain dynamics. Contextual computations are ubiquitous in the brain. Here, we investigate the effects of psilocybin using psychophysics, ultra-high field functional MR...

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I recently talked for @aliusresearch.org about our neurophenomenological study of the psychedelic DMT. Check it out below if you're interested in the neuroscience of consciousness and psychedelics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFk...

Mapping neural dynamics to experience dynamics in a dose-response study of DMT | Evan Lewis-Healy

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Evan Lewis-Healey@evanlhealey.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Hot off the press! 🚨 Our new preprint explores the dose-dependent neural and subjective effects of smoked freebase DMT 🌌 🧠 Insights into brain dynamics 🌟 Phenomenology in focus 📖 Check it out: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Full breakdown below [1/20] 👇

Psychedelic-mediated Reversal of General Anesthesia and Restoration of Brain Dynamics in Rat www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our preprint on the neural and experience dynamics induced by the psychedelic DMT on @researchhubf.bsky.social #DeSci #OpenScience tinyurl.com/2mrspzrc

Time-resolved neural and experience dynamics of medium and high-dose DMT

N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent and fast-acting psychedelic drug that induces a radical reorganisation of the contents of consciousness, comprising the dissolution of time and space and perce...

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

OK, this surprised me and I thought I was keeping on top of AI... I would 100% believe this was a real podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr4...

AI discusses document that just says “Poopoo Peepee”

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my first paper's VOR is out now in eLife ! thrilled to share how we linked experiential reports to brain activity during movie-watching, revealing distinctive cognitive and neural dynamics 🎥💭🧠 elifesciences.org/articles/97731 @themindwanders.bsky.social @leechbrain.bsky.social

Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching

Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.

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I'm doing a talk for @aliusresearch.org about our recent study on the dose-dependent effects of DMT on the brain and the mind🧠 Tomorrow! 10:00am Eastern/NY 15:00pm GMT/London 16:00pm CET/Berlin RSVP here: rb.gy/630099

Evan Lewis-Healey@evanlhealey.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Hot off the press! 🚨 Our new preprint explores the dose-dependent neural and subjective effects of smoked freebase DMT 🌌 🧠 Insights into brain dynamics 🌟 Phenomenology in focus 📖 Check it out: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Full breakdown below [1/20] 👇