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Different measures of how psychedelics quickly change brain signal complexity on fMRI

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Abstract

In a study of 28 healthy participants, 121 pre- and post-psilocybin fMRI scans revealed significant positive associations for several brain entropy metrics.

  • Psychedelics may increase brain entropy, but specific metrics yield different results.
  • Significant positive associations were found for Shannon entropy, path-length, instantaneous correlations, brain-state switching, and sample entropy at short time-scales.
  • No significant effects were observed for 8 of the 14 entropy metrics evaluated.
  • Inconsistent positive effects were noted for Lempel-Ziv complexity of the BOLD signal.
  • Limited inter-measure correlations suggest that brain entropy quantifications do not represent a single construct.

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Competing interests: The Authors declare the following competing interests: D.E.W.M. salary was supported by an unrestricted grant from COMPASS Pathways who had no involvement in the preparation or conception of this manuscript or related data collection. M.K.M. has received an honorarium as a speaker for H. Lundbeck. G.M.K. has served as a consultant for Sanos, Gilgamesh, Onsero, Pangea, Abbvie, PureHealthTech, and has received honoraria as speaker for H. Lundbeck and Sage Therapeutics. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
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