What Makes a Psychedelic Experience? Not Always a Drug, It Turns Out
Briefly

Are we closer to using these transformational experiences to treat psychiatric disorders? Having been in this field for a while, there's still this inescapable problem of how to study psychedelics.
One framework that I find very useful is thinking about it in three categories. There's the biochemical drug effect, which interacts with basic brain biologychemicals interacting with receptors on cells. Then there is the conscious experience related to changes in sensation and revelatory, hallucinatory and ecstatic feelings.
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