{"id":14570,"date":"2012-01-23T22:48:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14570"},"modified":"2012-01-23T22:48:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:48:49","slug":"turn-off-your-mind-relax-and-float-downstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14570","title":{"rendered":"Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/46105129\/ns\/health-mental_health\/#.Tx4pifnkc9o\">Psychedelics are thought of<\/a> as 'mind-expanding' drugs so it has commonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity,\" said David Nutt of Imperial College London, who gave a briefing about the studies on Monday. \"But, surprisingly, we found that psilocybin actually caused activity to decrease in areas that have the densest connections with other areas.\"<\/p>\n<p>These so-called \"hub\" regions of the brain are known to play a role in constraining our experience of the world and keeping it orderly, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"We now know that deactivating these regions leads to a state in which the world is experienced as strange.\"<br \/>\n...<br \/>\nIt found activity decreased in \"hub\" regions and many volunteers described a feeling of the cogs being loosened and their sense of self being altered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brains are cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Psychedelics are thought of as 'mind-expanding' drugs so it has commonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity,\" said David Nutt of Imperial College London, who gave a briefing about the studies on Monday. \"But, surprisingly, we found that psilocybin actually caused activity to decrease in areas that have the densest connections with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}