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Pondering How the Brain Processes Information with Karl Friston

Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson

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Psychadelics and Neuromodulation in People With Scieprena

Brain imaging studies of taking psychadelics as a model for the kind of changes in neur modulatory function that people think under right scitzophenia. The particular findings i like from tho studies, an are characteristic changes in the excitability of particular populations in specific parts of the brain. So your once simple view of this would be am that i'm going to increase the gain at the bottom of a hierarchy, where the visual itis coming in from from the algien and the retina, and decrease the excitability at the top of the hierarchy, or deep en the hierarchy. That's what seems to be reflected in this sort of balance of tability between high and low levels of

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