{"id":226714,"date":"2025-12-08T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/researchers-use-virus-to-trace-psilocybins-effects-across-the-entire-brain"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:06:33","slug":"researchers-use-virus-to-trace-psilocybins-effects-across-the-entire-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/researchers-use-virus-to-trace-psilocybins-effects-across-the-entire-brain","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Use Virus To Trace Psilocybin\u2019s Effects Across the Entire Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-virus-to-trace-psilocybins-effects-across-the-entire-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map how \u2013 and where \u2013 the psychedelic compound rewires the connections in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, they showed psilocybin weakens the cortico-cortical feedback loops that can lock people into negative thinking. Psilocybin also strengthens pathways to subcortical regions that turn sensory perceptions into action, essentially enhancing sensory-motor responses.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(25)01305-4\" target=\"_blank\">findings published Dec. 5 in Cell<\/a>. The lead author is postdoctoral researcher Quan Jiang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map how \u2013 and where \u2013 the psychedelic compound rewires the connections in the brain. Specifically, they showed psilocybin weakens the cortico-cortical feedback loops that can lock people into negative thinking. Psilocybin also strengthens pathways to subcortical regions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226714","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\/226714","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}