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Berkeley to Focus on Understanding Brain Mechanisms in Psychedelic Experience
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The Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics plans to focus on basic science research to understand the brain mechanisms involved in psychedelic experience. They also hope to educate the public about psychedelics as sources of information tend to be limited and not always rigorous.

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