As he began the brain scan, neurologist Dr. Nico Dosenbach wasn’t sure if he’d been given a psychedelic or a placebo as part of a new clinical trial that would capture how the brain works on psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.
Suddenly he felt a faster heartbeat, a flush of energy and a change in vision. It wasn’t until his brain morphed into a computer, however, that he knew for sure he was on a psychedelic trip.