National Geographic Explorer presents how researchers are using scans and sensors to create 3D maps showing the activity of the brain on hallucinogenic drugs, such as LSD.
FROM: Nationalgeographic.com
Inside LSD airs Tuesday, November 3rd @ both 7PM & 10PM ET/PT.
LSDs inventor Albert Hofmann called it "medicine for the soul." The Beatles wrote songs about it. Secret military mind control experiments exploited its hallucinogenic powers. Outlawed in 1966, LSD became a street drug and developed a reputation as the dangerous toy of the counterculture, capable of inspiring either moments of genius, or a descent into madness. Now science is taking a fresh look at LSD, including the first human trials in over 35 years. Using enhanced brain imaging, non-hallucinogenic versions of the drug and information from an underground network of test subjects who suffer from an agonizing condition for which there is no cure, researchers are finding that this "trippy" drug could become the pharmaceutical of the future. Can it enhance our brain power, expand our creativity and cure disease? To find out, Explorer puts LSD under the microscope.
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"Can it enhance our brain power, expand our creativity and cure disease? To find out, Explorer puts LSD under the microscope."
Strange idea in a way, what do health, creativity and brain power look like under the microscope? But as people who've known for decades that LSD can do all this, we probably should be happy the mainstream is somewhat catching up ...
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