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Psychedelics, Consciousness, Mental Health & the Entropic Brain | Robin Carhart-Harris | 173

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Exploring the Default Mode Network

This chapter examines the default mode network (DMN) in the brain, its high metabolic activity at rest, and its connection to cognitive processes and mental health. It further investigates how heightened DMN activity in conditions like major depression relates to rumination and how psychedelics may alter this activity for potential therapeutic effects.

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