UCL Centre for Consciousness Research

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671634v1

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“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
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On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!

20.08.2025 13:27 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 2

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flick…

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

20.08.2025 19:31 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2

Redirecting

A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work.
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience

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Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️

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☎️ DM me for more details.

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Filament Health Announces Two Phase 2 Research Trials In Partnership With University College London Filament Health Announces Two Phase 2 Research Trials In Partnership With University College London

Two psilocybin studies led by @rosmcalpine.bsky.social, @mjaglinska.bsky.social, @kjedlovszky.bsky.social, @orisshenyan.bsky.social, and others.

www.filament.health/news/filamen...

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A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems Our understanding of neural systems rests on our ability to characterise how they perform distributed computation and integrate information. Advances in information theory have introduced several quan...

Preprint time:
“A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems”
arxiv.org/abs/2506.18498

A principled and scalable approach to measure high-order effects in time series data, generalising BROJA for multiple-input multiple-output settings!

24.06.2025 06:06 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Coming out @ www.psychedelicscience.org

17.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake

🌐 Psychedelic drug DMT trialled on patients to treat alcohol addiction

#Amazon #London

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/17/psychedelic-drug-dmt-trialled-patients-treat-alcohol-addiction

17.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️‍🩹.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.05.2025 10:31 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Our new paper - the first peer-reviewed brain and phenomenological examination of 5-MeO-DMT is out in Neuro of Consciousness.

TLDR: We tested whether ‘the mount Everest’ of psychedelics could induce a complete state of consciousness deconstruction while preserving awareness. 1/n

#neuroskyence

23.04.2025 14:06 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 1

Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper

“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/lan...

#philsky #langsky #consky

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