"We are Starting to Understand How Psychedelics Work in the Brain" | KATRIN PRELLER, PhD

KATRIN PRELLER, PhD is a Neuroscientist and Laboratory Head at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Recorded at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR) 2022, in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
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Questions:
0:00 Intro
0:05 Please introduce yourself and your work!
2:38 So what is the practical importance of this kind of research on the brain? How can they contribute to a better understanding of how we use psychedelics in treatment?
4:09 Can you explain to us what neuroplasticity is, and how is it associated with the use of psychedelics?
5:45 Do you think it's the experience, the subjective experience itself that has this medical benefit or there is an underlying biological benefit that explains this?
6:30 Do we know what kind of individuals respond positively to psychedelic treatment, and who are the ones who do not?
7:18 What can we learn from brain imaging studies? How can we connect what we see on these brain images to the subjective experiences of people?
8:19 How can we compare the experiences caused by psychedelics to other altered states of consciousness, such as hypnosis or meditation?
9:54 What are the main questions you think the researchers should answer in the following few years?
10:38 Will the reality be worse than the expectations around psychedelics?

[@albert.robles7]

Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much LSD and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, it was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to trip on Shrooms next, just dont know where to get them, so rare in my area.

[@katlinkate]

Once I took shrooms on accident they were in a chocolate bar and my fat ass thought it was regular chocolate 😂

[@userconspiracynut]

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Ships psychedelics

[@albert.robles7]

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[@albert.robles7]

Is it Instagram?

[@userconspiracynut]

Yeah, he has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, LSD, DMT, MDMA even the chocolate bars

[@levinsonl]

Meditation seems to be training for the "thing" that experiences the psychedelics, training in the control and directing of the "search light" of consciousness or whatever it is. I wonder if advanced meditators are able to get into psychedelic places, but most meditators are not getting anywhere near the territory that advanced meditators do. I would imagine that even an intermediate meditator would experience psychedelics differently than someone who has never tried to sit and non-judgmentally watch their mind and their "experience." They are probably complementary in some way. I suspect that being a meditator changes oneself as much as psychedelic experience does. But subjectively you can never be sure, because you can't go back and do an A to B comparison vs. your old self. We all know those people who always need music or the TV on, background noise, to feel okay. Meditators learn how to be comfortable and also uncomfortable in their own mind. I suspect that this is the biggest benefit of meditation for most people who don't go super deep into it. It's a special thing and I think it's accessible to almost everyone if they put some time in.

[@GOD-OF-MGTOW]

Now tell us why most people see the same entities.

[@redruby8529]

the collective unconscious

[@GOD-OF-MGTOW]

@@redruby8529 Yes! We are one.

[@rdiazmartin]

Priest of nihilism see neurons everywhere.