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Scientists map LSD's effect on the brain
Scientists have scanned brains of volunteers using LSD and compared them with those using a placebo. They found the hallucinogenic drug makes the brain become less compartmentalised and more like the brain of a baby. Professor David Nutt of Imperial College London did the research.
(Photo: MRI scan of a brain using placebo, and scan of one of volunteer taking LSD, Credit: Reuters)
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