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What Psychedelics Actually Do in the Brain, Explained by a Neuroscientist

What Psychedelics Actually Do in the Brain, Explained by a Neuroscientist

Dr Chloe West studies how psychedelics change the way the brain processes information and updates its beliefs. Her own story starts at ten, when her family moved from Georgia's Bible Belt to Kawakawa in Northland — and atheism, evolution and ayahuasca arrived in the same disorienting year.

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