PT258 – Manesh Girn – Psychedelics and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and Creativity
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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In this episode, Kyle and Michelle interview Manesh Girn: Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience. They discuss neuroplasticity and how psychedelics affect the neurocognitive processes behind thought, flexibility, and creativity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is your host, Kyle Buller, and also |
| 0:17.8 | joined with Michelle Janikian today. And today on the show, we get to chat with Minesh Gern. |
| 0:23.2 | You may remember Minesh from a previous Solidarity Friday episode, so you can go back and check that out. |
| 0:29.4 | And if this is completely new to you, I'll read a little bit about Mnesh. So Manesh is a PhD candidate |
| 0:34.7 | and neuroscience at Miguel University and has been a lead or co-author |
| 0:39.4 | on a dozen scientific publications and book chapters on topics including psychedelics, |
| 0:44.5 | meditation, mind wandering, and the default mode network. |
| 0:47.6 | His PhD dissertation focuses on the default mode network, and he is also conducting research |
| 0:52.9 | on the brain mechanisms underlying |
| 0:54.5 | LSD, psilocybin, and DMT in collaboration with Dr. Robin Carhar Harris and others from the Imperial |
| 1:01.0 | College London Center for Psychedelic Research. In his free time, he also runs a YouTube channel, |
| 1:06.4 | the psychedelic scientist, definitely check that out, where he discusses the latest findings in |
| 1:11.9 | psychedelic science in an easy to understand but non-superficial form. I think that is actually |
| 1:18.0 | how I stumbled across Manesh's work, either on Instagram or YouTube, and really just appreciated |
| 1:23.8 | how he was presenting it and thought it, again, yeah, very easy to understand, |
| 1:29.1 | kind of breaking down some of those higher level ideas into things that, yeah, the layperson |
| 1:34.3 | can understand. So definitely check out some of his work. I really appreciate Manesh coming on |
| 1:39.7 | and chatting with us. We get into just neuroscience in general, get into psychedelics and creativity. |
| 1:47.1 | Yeah, and just everything psychedelic and neuroscience related. So we really enjoyed chatting with |
| 1:51.7 | Manash. I'm sure you're going to hear more from him over at psychedelics today. So stay tuned. |
| 1:56.7 | Stay tuned. If you want to support the show, you can subscribe to us wherever you listen to |
| 2:01.4 | podcast, Google, iTunes, Stitcher, et cetera. |
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