What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Psychedelics may weaken the normal flow of information into higher-order systems that support abstract self-referential processing, allowing perception and cognition to become less constrained. An interesting systems neuroscience account of psychedelic action.
Excited to see this out in PNAS. A fabulous project by Adam Pines and the Williams lab: across psychedelics (LSD, Psilo, MDMA), species, and datasets, a very consistent story—reduced propagation of activity into the default mode network (DMN). Congrats Adam! 🧠🍄
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
How Psychedelics Affect the Brain www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/h...