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SUBMITTER: Viol A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5547073 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viol A A Palhano-Fontes Fernanda F Onias Heloisa H de Araujo Draulio B DB Viswanathan G M GM
Scientific reports 20170807 1
The entropic brain hypothesis holds that the key facts concerning psychedelics are partially explained in terms of increased entropy of the brain's functional connectivity. Ayahuasca is a psychedelic beverage of Amazonian indigenous origin with legal status in Brazil in religious and scientific settings. In this context, we use tools and concepts from the theory of complex networks to analyze resting state fMRI data of the brains of human subjects under two distinct conditions: (i) under ordinar ...[more]