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Sep 9, 2026
Why Psychedelics Don't Always Change Us with Nigel Denning, MA, MPsych
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Can you talk about why people s- sometimes return to the familiar patterns after that period?

Nigel DenningGUEST
Um, well, there, there, there's, there's lots of d- ways of describing it, but, but one, one I guess, um, metaphor from biological kind of processes, something called the default mode network.

Nigel DenningGUEST
You know, the, the brain's sort of orientation to return to how it's learned to survive in the world.

Nigel DenningGUEST
And so in regression to the mean, you know, you, you, you go back to, you know, where, where the, the most common patterns are.

Nigel DenningGUEST
So, you know, when you're first coming out of a session, that, that's, that's the point of neuroplasticity.
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