Psychedelics increase glucose metabolism and cerebral blood flow
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Vollenweider1997 → PET, increase in glucose metabolism with [18F]-FDG PET
Riba2006 → increase in SPECT in bilateral anterior insula and inferior frontal gyrus, greater activity in right hemisphere
- ventral ACC and subcallosal gyrus
- Left hemisphere: amygdala and parahippocampus
Hermle1992 → increase in activation of frontal regions
Gouzoulis-Mayfrank1999 highest increases in [18F]-FDG PET psilocybin in ACC and right frontal operculum.