Entries by Rodri Bermejo

Psychedelics and Brain Development: Psychedelics Reopen Critical Period for Social Reward Learning

The study titled “Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period” was conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University after they discovered a novel critical period for social reward learning. Critical periods are mechanistically constrained windows of time during specific periods of brain development where the nervous system exhibits heightened sensitivity to ethologically-relevant stimuli, along […]