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18/09/2025

🧠 World-first brain scans reveal how L*D reshapes the human brain

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed images showing exactly how L*D alters brain activity, offering groundbreaking insights into the neural basis of psychedelic experiences.

Researchers at Imperial College London, in collaboration with the Beckley Foundation, gave L*D to 20 healthy volunteers and used advanced brain imaging techniques (fMRI and MEG) to map changes in activity. The results showed that L*D dissolves the brain’s usual compartmental boundaries, creating a far more integrated and interconnected network.

This reorganization helps explain L*D’s signature effects—visual hallucinations, heightened emotions, and profound shifts in consciousness. Remarkably, even with eyes closed, participants reported vivid dreamlike visions, traced to increased communication between the visual cortex and memory-processing regions like the parahippocampus.

Music amplified these effects, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic enhancer in psychedelic-assisted therapy. Scientists believe this research could pave the way for novel treatments for depression, addiction, and other mental health disorders by “resetting” entrenched brain patterns.

Once a counterculture icon, L*D may now hold the key to unlocking both mental healing and deeper mysteries of human consciousness.

🔗 Learn more: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

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