Lorenzo Pasquini
@lollopasquini.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UCSF. Computational neuroscientist working at the intersection of age, emotions, and psychedelics.
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“Awe-scillations”: EEG spectral and complexity representations of awe
Awe is a positive emotion often accompanied by sensations of vastness and unity, with known benefits for well-being and social behavior. However, its neural underpinnings remain poorly understood. We ...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Proud to share this: "Awe-scillations”: EEG spectral and complexity representations of awe. Kudos to @josephccchen.bsky.social . Check out the preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our new preprint "Cross-species mapping of psychedelic gene expression reveals links to the 5HT2A receptor, cortical layers, and human accelerated regions"!:https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7625999/v1
October 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Check out our new preprint "Cross-species mapping of psychedelic gene expression reveals links to the 5HT2A receptor, cortical layers, and human accelerated regions"!:https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7625999/v1
Reposted by Lorenzo Pasquini
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Lorenzo Pasquini, Christopher Timmermann, et al:
Dynamic medial parietal and hippocampal deactivations under DMT relate to sympathetic output and altered sense of time, space, and the self
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Dynamic medial parietal and hippocampal deactivations under DMT relate to sympathetic output and altered sense of time, space, and the self
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
April 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Lorenzo Pasquini, Christopher Timmermann, et al:
Dynamic medial parietal and hippocampal deactivations under DMT relate to sympathetic output and altered sense of time, space, and the self
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Dynamic medial parietal and hippocampal deactivations under DMT relate to sympathetic output and altered sense of time, space, and the self
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Check out our new paper investigating dynamic brain substates under the psychedelic DMT: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Dynamic medial parietal and hippocampal deactivations under DMT relate to sympathetic output and altered sense of time, space, and the self
Abstract. N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a serotonergic psychedelic, known to rapidly induce short-lasting alterations in conscious experience, characterized by a profound and immersive sense of phys...
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April 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Check out our new paper investigating dynamic brain substates under the psychedelic DMT: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...