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The oneirogen hypothesis: modeling the hallucinatory effects of classical psychedelics in terms of replay-dependent plasticity mechanisms
Colin Bredenberg, Fabrice Normandin, Blake A. Richards, Guillaume Lajoie
This paper proposes the oneirogen hypothesis, suggesting classical psychedelics induce hallucinations by shifting neural activity toward dream-like states, and validates this through simulations using a wake-sleep neural network model.
DOI 10.1101/2024.09.27.615483