A new theory suggests that psychedelics promote empathy, insight, and psychological flexibility by making the brain's right hemisphere temporarily dominant over the left. Known as HEALS--Hemispheric Annealing and Lateralization Under Psychedelics--this model proposes that psychedelics disrupt the typical hierarchy between hemispheres, releasing the more holistic, emotionally intelligent right side from left-brain control.
A new theory suggests that psychedelics promote empathy, insight, and psychological flexibility by making the brain's right hemisphere temporarily dominant over the left. Known as HEALS--Hemispheric Annealing and Lateralization Under Psychedelics--this model proposes that psychedelics disrupt the typical hierarchy between hemispheres, releasing the more holistic, emotionally intelligent right side from left-brain control.
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