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Postdoc @ Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research. Studying visual perception, distortions and hallucinations, and visual plasticity.

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Visual illusions in Parkinson's disease: an interview survey of symptomatology Background Several types of visual illusions can occur in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the prevalence and types of specific illusions experienced by patients with PD remain unclear. This study...

Thanks! About more dissimilarities than similarities, our point is that, to investigate *specific* shared mechanisms, it is more fruitful to focus on specific phenomena where shared phenomenology is clearest. (e.g., visual distortions):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Visual Hallucinations in Serotonergic Psychedelics and Lewy Body Diseases AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Visual hallucinations (VH) are a core symptom of both Lewy body diseases (LBDs; eg, Parkinson’s disease and dementia wit

🧠 New Psychedelic Article in Schizophrenia Bulletin!

We argue that visual hallucinations in psychedelics and Lewy body disease may share common mechanisms β‡’ visual degradation & cortical excitation.

academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Excited to see this spark discussion!
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