{"id":173329,"date":"2023-10-02T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/psychedelics-plus-psychotherapy-can-trigger-rapid-changes-in-the-brain-%e2%88%92-new-research-at-the-level-of-neurons-is-untangling-how"},"modified":"2023-10-02T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:30:09","slug":"psychedelics-plus-psychotherapy-can-trigger-rapid-changes-in-the-brain-%e2%88%92-new-research-at-the-level-of-neurons-is-untangling-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/psychedelics-plus-psychotherapy-can-trigger-rapid-changes-in-the-brain-%e2%88%92-new-research-at-the-level-of-neurons-is-untangling-how","title":{"rendered":"Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain \u2212 new research at the level of neurons is untangling how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psychedelics-plus-psychotherapy-can-trigger-rapid-changes-in-the-brain-e28892-new-research-at-the-level-of-neurons-is-untangling-how2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain can change \u2013 but usually only slowly and with great effort, such as when learning a new sport or foreign language, or recovering from a stroke. Learning new skills correlates with changes in the brain, as evidenced by neuroscience research with animals and functional brain scans in people. Presumably, if you master Calculus 1, something is now different in your brain. Furthermore, motor neurons in the brain expand and contract depending on how often they are exercised \u2013 a neuronal reflection of \u201cuse it or lose it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People may wish their brains could change faster \u2013 not just when learning new skills, but also when overcoming problems like anxiety, depression and addictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 More<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Change in the brain usually comes with plenty of effort over time. Neuroscientists are working to understand how psychedelic drugs provide a shortcut that seems to rely on existing brain systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain can change \u2013 but usually only slowly and with great effort, such as when learning a new sport or foreign language, or recovering from a stroke. Learning new skills correlates with changes in the brain, as evidenced by neuroscience research with animals and functional brain scans in people. Presumably, if you master [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}