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Saga Briggs
Saga Briggs is a freelance journalist. Her articles on interoception and psychedelics have been published by Scientific American, Aeon+Psyche, and DoubleBlind Magazine. She is the author of How to Change Your Body: The Science of Interoception and Healing Through Connection to Yourself and Others (Synergetic Press, 2023).
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A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.
Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
When your life’s truth and the reality you live become out of sync, you risk falling into an "anxiety spiral."
“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?" asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. "Can they build something completely different?”
"The amount of interest is enormous," says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. "People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this."
MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.