Psychedelics and the science of self-experience.

Nour, Matthew M; Carhart-Harris, Robin L · Br J Psychiatry · 2017

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Abstract

Altered self-experiences arise in certain psychiatric conditions, and may be induced by psychoactive drugs and spiritual/religious practices. Recently, a neuroscience of self-experience has begun to crystallise, drawing upon findings from functional neuroimaging and altered states of consciousness occasioned by psychedelic drugs. This advance may be of great importance for psychiatry.

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