This Is Your Brain on Psychedelic Mushrooms
|The chemical that makes magic mushrooms so magical is called psilocybin, and the effect it has on your brain is breathtaking.
During normal brain function, the connection between brain regions is stable. But throw some psilocybin into the mix and brain regions not normally in communication become strongly linked, causing the total trippy-ness that psychedelic mushrooms are famous for.
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