Tripping into an artificial experiment

[image error]The NeuroKüz blog covers a new study in which research participants were asked to take the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin before being asked to take part in a pretend brain scan in a fake fMRI machine.

If the situation seems a little odd, a bit trippy even, it's actually more common than you think as almost all functioning brain scanning centres now have fake brain scanners that are used to test out experiments before running them 'live'.

Brain scanning is a very expensive business and an hour ...