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Sean Noah

@psilocybin.bsky.social

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Postdoc at UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics personal website: seannoah@github.io

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Sean Noah @psilocybin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you'd like to check it out, the link to our new paper is here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Frontiers | A novel method for quantitative analysis of subjective experience reports: application to psychedelic visual experiences

IntroductionPsychedelic compounds such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and DMT can dramatically alter visual perception. However, the extent to which visual e...

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Sean Noah @psilocybin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What i'm most excited about is that this finding reveals the potential for something like a comparative psychedelic neuroimaging study in the future – a way to use different psychedelics to understand how the human brain generates different types of visual experiences.

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Sean Noah @psilocybin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

These differences suggest to us that the different chemical properties of different psychedelics have meaningful impacts on the perceptual circuitry in the brain.

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Sean Noah @psilocybin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In particular, in this paper we look at rates of different visual effects across psychedelics, and find that although there is much similarity in the patterns of visual effects across psychedelics, there are actually statistically significant differences in the patterns of their effects.

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Sean Noah @psilocybin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It uses new AI-based text processing methods (using software from OpenAI) to analyze a very large dataset of psychedelic experience narrative self-report text.

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Sean Noah @psilocybin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Hi everyone! I'm excited to share that Michael Silver and I, along with an undergraduate researcher in our lab named Miranda Shen, and our collaborators Earth and Fire Erowid, have published a fun little paper in Frontiers in Psychology.

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