Psychedelics Enhance Performance on a Free Response Perceptual Integration Task
Cristina Delgado Sallent, Sanaa Ahmed, Benjamin Lee, Anosha Khawaja-Lopez, Ryan Senne, Benjamin Scott, Steve Ramirez · COSYNE 2025
Psychedelics like psilocybin and ketamine have shown great potential in treating psychiatric disorders, often producing long-lasting effects after a single dose, yet their underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. Since one of the most consistent features of the psychedelic experience is the alteration in perception, this study aimed to investigate how acute doses of psychedelics influence perceptual integration. We used a free-response perceptual integration task in mice, alongside brain-wide mapping of drug-responsive populations using activity-dependent gene expression and calc
ePoster · Neuroscience