Scientists Say A Mind-Bending Rhythm In The Brain Can Act Like Ketamine
Researchers were able to mimic the mind-altering effects of the drug ketamine by inducing a particular rhythm in one area of the brain.
Out-of-body experiences are all about rhythm, a team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.
In mice and one person, scientists were able to reproduce the altered state often associated with ketamine by inducing certain brain cells to fire together in a slow-rhythmic fashion.
"There was a rhythm that appeared and it was an oscillation that appeared only when the patient was dissociating," says , a psychiatrist and neuroscientist
