Mendel Kaelen

The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Ego Dissolution and Emotional Arousal During the Psychedelic State

This study uses fMRI and MEG to investigate how LSD affects DLPFC connectivity and relates to ego dissolution and emotional arousal in healthy humans.

LSD reconfigures the frequency-specific network landscape of the human brain

This study uses MEG data to show LSD reconfigures brain network frequencies and spatial distributions in specific frequency bands across different experimental conditions.

Effects of external stimulation on psychedelic state neurodynamics

This study examines how external stimuli modulate brain entropy during a psychedelic experience, finding that eye closure enhances entropy changes and that video stimuli disrupt the relationship between brain activity and subjective experience.

Increased low-frequency brain responses to music after psilocybin therapy for depression

This study shows that psilocybin therapy increases low-frequency brain responses to music in patients with treatment-resistant depression, correlating with subjective drug effects.

Increased sensitivity to strong perturbations in a whole-brain model of LSD

This paper uses a whole-brain computational model to simulate perturbations under LSD and finds increased dynamical complexity and recovery time, with strongest effects in resting state networks.

Connectome-harmonic decomposition of human brain activity reveals dynamical repertoire re-organisation under LSD

This study uses connectome-harmonic decomposition to analyze how LSD alters brain dynamics, finding frequency-selective changes in energy and power, and a non-random expansion of active brain states.

Effects of LSD on music-evoked brain activity

This study investigates how LSD affects brain activity during music listening, finding increased cortical and subcortical activity linked to timbral complexity and enhanced emotional responses.