{"id":8985,"date":"2018-03-03T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:17:32","slug":"geeks-on-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/03\/geeks-on-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeks On Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/article203341684.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Miami Herald<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>LSD is &#8216;harmonizing&#8217; for the brain \u2014 and can change your personality for years, studies find<\/h1>\n<p>BY JOSH MAGNESS<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Two recently released studies show how LSD can affect the brain.\" srcset=\"\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/x24kjq\/picture203341679\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1140\/LSD\" alt=\"Two recently released studies show how LSD can affect the brain.\" width=\"480\/\" \/><em><span class=\"caption-text\">Two recently released studies show how LSD can affect the brain. <\/span><span class=\"credits\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz improvisation.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Selen Atasoy, a research fellow at the Center for Brain and Cognition at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. She was among the authors of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports that found <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-017-17546-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the psychedelic drug can reorganize your brain in a \u201charmonizing\u201d way.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like improvising jazz musicians use many more musical notes in a spontaneous and non-random fashion,\u201d <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psypost.org\/2018\/02\/lsd-produces-new-type-harmonic-order-brain-according-neuroimaging-study-50804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she told PsyPost in an interview<\/a>, \u201cyour brain combines many more of the harmonic waves (connectome harmonics) spontaneously yet in a structured way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twelve people were examined for the study, with some taking LSD and some a placebo drug. Researchers examined their brain with an MRI scan both during and after the subjects listened to music.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/article203341684.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Miami Herald<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Miami Herald LSD is &#8216;harmonizing&#8217; for the brain \u2014 and can change your personality for years, studies find BY JOSH MAGNESS Two recently released studies show how LSD can affect the brain. Wikimedia Commons Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz improvisation. That\u2019s according to Selen Atasoy, a research fellow at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}