Functional Neuroimaging of Psychedelic Experience: An Overview of Psychological and Neural Effects and their Relevance to Research on Creativity, Daydreaming, and Dreaming

摘要: Humans have employed an incredible variety of plant-derived substances over the millennia in order to alter consciousness and perception. Among innumerable narcotics, analgesics, 'ordeal' drugs, other psychoactive discovered used ritualistic contexts by cultures around world, one class particular stands out not only for its radical psychological effects, but also highly charged political legal atmosphere that has surrounded it since widespread adoption about 50 years ago: so-called psychedelic substances. We review functional neuroimaging investigations neural correlates experience, highlight relationships with bases creativity, daydreaming, dreaming.