Finding the self by losing the self: Neural correlates of ego-dissolution under psilocybin

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3137-3153

  Lebedev, Alexander V ^a,b   Lövdén, Martin ^a   Rosenthal, Gidon ^c   Feilding, Amanda ^d   Nutt, David J ^e   Carhart Harris, Robin L ^e  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d THE BECKLEY FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

connectivity; consciousness; ego disturbances; fMRI; graph theory; ichst rungen; medial temporal lobe; psychedelics; psychosis; sense of self

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PSILOCYBINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; PSYCHEDELIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; EGO; EGO DISSOLUTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAPH THEORY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SALIENCE NETWORK; THEORY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DRUG EFFECTS; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EGO; FEMALE; HALLUCINOGENS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERCEPTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSILOCYBINE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84930020005     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22833     Document Type: Article

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