增加了与社会认知,情感和情感价值相关的大脑区域之间的功能连接,在N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) 诱导的幻觉状态下

Carla Soares1,2, Gisela Lima1,2, Marta Lapo Pais1

  • 1Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

Frontiers in pharmacology
|November 14, 2024
PubMed
概括

像N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) 这样的迷幻药物可以通过改变大脑连接来帮助治疗社会情绪缺陷. 这项研究发现,在关键的社会认知和情绪处理大脑区域中,DMT调节了功能连接.

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