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Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Media Contact: Vanessa McMains, Ph.D., vmcmain1@jhmi.edu Recent interest in developing therapies from hallucinogenic drugs has scientists exploring how these chemicals work in the brain. Recently, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers imaged the brains of people who had vaped salvinorin A, a drug used in Native Mexican rituals, and found that, like other psychedelic drugs, it increased the communication across parts of the brain. However, the primary effects of the drug that they observed -- as reported in their paper published Oct. 2, 2020, in Scientific Reports ...
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