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Psilocybin Seems to Turn Down ‘Ego Center’ in Brain
therapy for certain psychiatric disorders, which might help us tailor therapies to help people more.”Because of its deep-rooted location in the brain, the claustrum has been difficult to access and study. Last year, Barrett and his colleagues at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, developed a method to detect brain activity in the claustrum using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).In this study, the researchers used fMRI with 15 people and observed the claustrum brain region after the participants took either psilocybin or a placebo.
