Implications for the thalamic gating hypothesis and brain entropy accounts
BRAIN
Our results are in line with the thalamic gating hypothesis, which postulates that psychedelics may temporally reduce thalamic gating leading to excessive information flow from thalamus to cortical regions [Brain entropy accounts of psychedelics propose that altered states of consciousness observed following administration of psychedelics result from increased entropy in the brain [It is interesting to note that connections between occipital regions appear to dominate EC under placebo (Fig. 