Dr. Brockett and Dr. Nik Francis recently showed that a single dose of psilocybin, a precursor to the psychoactive ingredient found in psilocybe mushrooms, enhances brain wide connectivity while preserving pure-tone selectivity. The work was published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Dr. Brockett and colleagues recently published a new paper in eNeuro using optogenetics to disrupt stop-change task performance. We show that silencing the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) reduces accuracy on difficult trials that require higher levels of inhibitory control. Silencing of the OFC also speeds response times on error trials, suggesting a role for the OFC…
