Psychedelics may induce right-brain dominance, researcher proposes

Psychedelics may induce right-brain dominance, researcher proposes

The secret to psychedelic drugs' links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere of the brain into a position of dominance over the left, according to a proposed new theory.

Proposed Theory: Psychedelics Induce Right-Brain Dominance

The secret to psychedelic drugs' links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere of the brain into a position of dominance over the left, according to a proposed new theory.

Proposed theory: Psychedelics induce right-brain dominance

The secret to psychedelic drugs’ links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere of the brain into a position of dominance over the left, according to a proposed new theory. Researcher Adam Levin combined his experience in therapeutic psychedelics research and psychiatric training with a review of ima...

Western University - Schulich researcher aims to unlock science behind psychedelics

Why do some drugs cause hallucinations while others don't - even when they act on the same part of the brain?That's the mystery at the centre of a new research project supported by . . .