Psychedelic resting-state neuroimaging: a review and perspective on balancing replication and novel analyses
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Author(s)
McCulloch, Drummond E-Wen
Knudsen, Gitte Moos
Barrett, Frederick Streeter
Doss, Manoj K
Carhart-Harris, Robin Lester
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Clinical research into serotonergic psychedelics is expanding rapidly, showing promising efficacy across myriad disorders. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a commonly used strategy to identify psychedelic-induced changes in neural pathways in clinical and healthy populations. Here we, a large group of psychedelic imaging researchers, review the 42 research articles published to date, based on the 17 unique studies evaluating psychedelic effects on rs-fMRI, focusing on methodological variation. Prominently, we observe that nearly all studies vary in data processing and analysis methodology, two datasets are the foundation of over half of the published literature, and there is lexical ambiguity in common outcome metric terminology. We offer guidelines for future studies that encourage coherence in the field. Psychedelic rs-fMRI will benefit from the development of novel methods that expand our understanding of the brain mechanisms mediating its intriguing effects; yet, this field is at a crossroads where we must also consider the critical importance of consistency and replicability to effectively converge on stable representations of the neural effects of psychedelics.
Date Issued
2022-07
Date Acceptance
2022-05-05
Citation
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022, 138, pp.104689-104689
ISSN
0149-7634
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
104689
End Page
104689
Journal / Book Title
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Volume
138
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422001786?via%3Dihub
Subjects
Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
11 Medical and Health Sciences
17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
104689