{"id":10613,"date":"2022-03-17T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1382758"},"modified":"2022-03-17T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:00:31","slug":"ai-helped-map-trips-in-the-brain-which-could-improve-psychiatric-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10613","title":{"rendered":"AI helped map \u2018trips\u2019 in the brain \u2014 which could improve psychiatric treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the past several decades, psychedelics have been widely stigmatized as dangerous illegal drugs. But a recent surge of academic research<\/a> into their use to treat psychiatric conditions is spurring a recent shift in public opinion.<\/p>\n

Psychedelics are psychotropic drugs<\/a>: substances that affect your mental state. Other types of psychotropics include antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications. Psychedelics and other types of hallucinogens, however, are unique in their ability to temporarily induce<\/a> intense hallucinations, emotions and disruptions of self-awareness.<\/p>\n

Researchers looking into the therapeutic potential of these effects have found that psychedelics can dramatically reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety<\/a>, PTSD<\/a>, substance abuse<\/a> and other psychiatric conditions<\/a>. The intense experiences, or \u201ctrips,\u201d that psychedelics induce are thought to create a temporary window of cognitive flexibility<\/a> that allows patients to gain access to elusive parts of their psyches and forge better coping skills and thought patterns.<\/p>\n

Precisely how psychedelics create these effects, however, is still unclear. So as researchers in psychiatry<\/a> and machine learning<\/a>, we were interested in figuring out how these drugs affect the brain. With artificial intelligence, we were able to map people\u2019s subjective experiences while using psychedelics<\/a> to specific regions of the brain, down to the molecular level.<\/p>\n

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