Wissenschaftler identifizieren „neuronalen Fingerabdruck“ von psychedelischen Drogen im Gehirn | Die Analyse von mehr als 500 Gehirnscans ergab, dass LSD, Psilocybin und andere Psychedelika die gegenseitige Kommunikation zwischen Gehirnsystemen verstärken
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/scientists-identify-neural-fingerprint-of-psychedelic-drugs-in-the-brain
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>Scientists have identified a hallmark signature produced by psychedelic drugs in the human brain when users experience their mind-altering effects.
>The “neural fingerprint” of the psychedelic trip was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca, pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
>The finding emerged from a major [study](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04287-9) that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
>The insights are increasingly important as researchers investigate the drugs in clinical trials as potential therapies for severe mental health and neurological conditions such as depression, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder.
>“These five drugs that have never been analysed together for their impact on the brain have certain effects in common in how they change brain function,” said Dr Danilo Bzdok, a senior author on the study, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
>“All five drugs dissolve the common order, the usual hierarchy of brain systems,” he added. “They flatten the hierarchy and that probably underlies what some people describe as this raw access to one’s own consciousness.”
Well makes sense if everything is physical in reality. Interesting the connection between these different drugs is similar, seeing how they are different chemical groups.
Stoned Ape hypothesis gains a little more evidence.
Anyone know if there is any legal, clinical access to this stuff yet for the general American public? Or is everything everywhere still just clinical trials you have to „get into“?
Nice to learn it, so we will definitely see some new treatment in the next 5 years if they begin to do that. I know their effect is studied for medical use since 2017/2018 but that’s kind of a second/third step to treatment