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Mushrooms create hyperconnected brain

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Ismene

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Daily Heil article on mushrooms today. Interesting that almost all the comments are from shroomheads.

Active chemical, psilocybin, causes dramatic increase in brain activity
It links up regions of the brain that don't normally talk to each other
This may be responsible for synaesthesia, the phenomenon whereby different senses are mixed up with others, according to UK scientists
Study could uncover usefulness of psilocybin in treating depression
It may also address issues such as where consciousness comes from

They have been credited for inspiring some of the most popular songs of a generation.

Now scientists claim they are closer to understanding why magic mushrooms cause people to have such intense creative and spiritual experiences.

Scans have revealed that its active ingredient, psilocybin, creates a hyperconnected mind that links regions of the brain that are normally have nothing to do with each other.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...rs-spiritual-experience-rearranging-mind.html
 
The thread title should have been 'The daily mail says: mushrooms create a hyperconnected brain' (but then we wouldn't have believed it). It does seem a bit out of character though - i'd expect them to say something like 'mushrooms terminally mess with your brain's wiring' (clickbait is clickbait though :\)

The diagram in the article's cool - somebody who knows how should embed it here...
 
Vurtual said:
The thread title should have been 'The daily mail says: mushrooms create a hyperconnected brain' (but then we wouldn't have believed it). It does seem a bit out of character though - i'd expect them to say something like 'mushrooms terminally mess with your brain's wiring' (clickbait is clickbait though :\)

The diagram in the article's cool - somebody who knows how should embed it here...
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Daily Mail doesn't even link to the original article: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/101/20140873
Also not mentioned in the newspaper is that this "hyperconnected state" is transient and that brain activity returns to normal when sobered up.
Being in a MRI scanner after an injection of psilocybin must be wild. But there's no novel discovery or breakthrough here (as implied by the "Scans reveal how..." title), just new data they're unsure how to interpret.
 
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9th century Buddhist temple Borobudur Java
 
kingme said:
initially i saw much penis there... rorscharch and all that.

i also think this " connectedness" needs a proper definition.
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Lady on the left is holding a buttplug, the other brandishing a metal-fist \m/

The measure of (neuroanatomical) connectedness is used in the journal artice as the amount of structural and functional associations (or "adjeceny matrices" in their system), though I'm not familiar enough with weighted network theory to make much sense of it (or the cute visualizations).
 
Quick hijack: What kind of long term effects do you get from heavy mushroom use? iv searched but not found anything definitive(moslty just bollocks) and a few people i know who have started loads seem to be alright, one friend has it in his head that shrooms are a super drug with no long term health problems and you can take them daily 8).

Afaik the only real danger is if you have underlying mental illnesses and the more i look, the safer it seems to be as a drug but i'm sure theres a good chance some of you know people that have taken them regularly over a long period, any obvious long term damage?
 
Some of them turn into no-good hippies and begin to enthuse about idealised / appropriated / ersatz mix-'n'-match eastern 'spirituality' in a hazy fashion. :|
 
Sammy G said:
Some of them turn into no-good hippies and begin to enthuse about idealised / appropriated / ersatz mix-'n'-match eastern 'spirituality' in a hazy fashion. :|
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EchoEchoEcho

Forum's thriving Sammy. Maybe it's your ersatz contributions eh?

Yeah yeah I'll get back to the tourism. You get back to your lightbulbs. Maybe there'll be another post along in a minute hour day.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
EchoEchoEcho

Forum's thriving Sammy. Maybe it's your ersatz contributions eh?

Yeah yeah I'll get back to the tourism. You get back to your lightbulbs. Maybe there'll be another post along in a minute hour day.
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I wish I knew what on earth you're harping on about, and what's offended you this time, but I obviously haven't taken enough mushrooms. Or chewed enough wasps. Or something.

So yeah. I'll just give up and go back to my, um, lightbulbs. Loads of 'em. As far as the eye can see. :?

Others may wish to continue with the thread.
 
Kronos said:
Quick hijack: What kind of long term effects do you get from heavy mushroom use?
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Nope, no negative health effects. The only pisser I can think of is that if you take enormous amounts every week for years you end up with a permanent tolerance. And I mean permanent. I still need about 15 dried grams to trip - even I don't have any for 12 months.
 
mushrooms r the dog s bolox, i fukin love the buzz and the whole experiance really, tho the come up can be a bit intense especially on the first time when u dont know wot to expect. I aint had any in years, might have to try and get some tho im in a very differant place now, compared to the old shroom thrashing days, still im sure id still enjoy them
 
acieed_ed said:
It takes your brain to another dimention


pay close attention.
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I lold <3

The parts of me that are awesome, are so because of psilocybin.

tru fax.

Coupled with decent phet and combined together at exactly the right time in my life. I was not fortunate enough to be born a thinker, or to be the spawn of thinkers.

Mushrooms were a sublime assistance for deprogramming.
 
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