Edmund S. Higgins

Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina

New research hints at how psychedelics can trigger rapid, lasting change. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus

October 2, 2023

Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain − new research at the level of neurons is untangling how

Edmund S. Higgins, Medical University of South Carolina

Change in the brain usually comes with plenty of effort over time. Neuroscientists are working to understand how psychedelic drugs provide a shortcut that seems to rely on existing brain systems.

Godfrey Hounsfield stands beside the EMI-Scanner in 1972. PA Images via Getty Images

October 1, 2021

50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles’ record company

Edmund S. Higgins, Medical University of South Carolina

On Oct. 1, 1971, Godfrey Hounsfield’s invention took its first pictures of a human brain, using X-rays and an ingenious algorithm to identify a woman’s tumor from outside of her skull.

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