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AI maps psychedelic 'trip' experiences to regions of the brain – opening new route to psychiatric treatments

  • Written by Galen Ballentine, Resident in Psychiatry, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
imagePsychedelics have been the subject of a recent surge of interest in their potential therapeutic effects.metamorworks/iStock via Getty Images

For the past several decades, psychedelics have been widely stigmatized as dangerous illegal drugs. But a recent surge of academic research into their use to treat psychiatric conditions is spurring a recent...

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