Sublime

your mentalising abilities correlate with both the number of friends you have and these same brain regions.

The DMN can be silenced significantly by antidepressants or hallucinogenic substances. But the most efficient cure for an overactive DMN is mindfulness.

Dopamine had its strongest effect at the network level (indexed by measures such as how many close friends you have, and how engaged you are with your local community),

Carhart-Harris’s working hypothesis was that their brains would exhibit increases in activity, particularly in the emotion centers. “I thought it would look like the dreaming brain,” he told me. Employing a different scanning technology, Franz Vollenweider had published data indicating that psychedelics stimulated brain activity, especially in the

Dr. Kurt Beringer, Lewin’s student and an acquaintance of Hermann Hesse’s and Carl Jung’s, became the father of psychedelic psychiatry.

Long-term high Beta produces an unhealthy cocktail of stress chemicals, which can tip the brain out of balance like a symphony orchestra out of tune.