Search
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).
The next era of psychedelics may be precision-designed states of consciousness
A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.
“Taking in the good”: A simple way to offset your brain’s negativity bias
Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.
The overlooked psychedelic that may help treat traumatic brain injury
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
Anxiety always lies: Martha Beck on overcoming fear and finding purpose
When your life’s truth and the reality you live become out of sync, you risk falling into an "anxiety spiral."
The quest for a “communication device” that tells cells to regenerate the body
“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?”
Inside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy”
"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."
Inside the battle for FDA approval of MDMA therapy
MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.