In today's show we dive face first
into the therapeutic benefits of eating chocolate, we look at what
LSD can tell us about the brain and trance, and explore the joys of
having a strong vagus nerve.
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Chocolate
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cognitive function: The Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal
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Field, D. T., Williams, C. M., &
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Mastroiacovo, D., Kwik-Uribe, C.,
Grassi, D., Necozione, S., Raffaele, A., Pistacchio, L., ... &
Ferri, C. (2015). Cocoa flavanol consumption improves cognitive
function, blood pressure control, and metabolic profile in elderly
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Smit, H. J., Gaffan, E. A., &
Rogers, P. J. (2004). Methylxanthines are the
psycho-pharmacologically active constituents of chocolate.
Psychopharmacology, 176(3-4), 412-419.
LSD
references
Carhart-Harris, R. L., Kaelen, M.,
Whalley, M. G., Bolstridge, M., Feilding, A., & Nutt, D. J.
(2015). LSD enhances suggestibility in healthy volunteers.
Psychopharmacology, 232(4), 785-794.
Carhart-Harris, R. L.,
Muthukumaraswamy, S., Roseman, L., Kaelen, M., Droog, W., Murphy,
K., ... & Leech, R. (2016). Neural correlates of the LSD
experience revealed by multimodal neuroimaging. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 201518377
Vagus nerve
references
Forsythe, P., Bienenstock, J., &
Kunze, W. A. (2014). Vagal pathways for microbiome-brain-gut axis
communication. Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 817,
115.-33.
Kok, B. E., Coffey, K. A., Cohn, M.
A., Catalino, L. I., Vacharkulksemsuk, T., Algoe, S. B., ... &
Fredrickson, B. L. (2013). How positive emotions build physical
health perceived positive social connections account for the upward
spiral between positive emotions and vagal tone. Psychological
science, 24(7), 1123-1132.
Kok, B. E., & Fredrickson, B. L.
(2010). Upward spirals of the heart: Autonomic flexibility, as
indexed by vagal tone, reciprocally and prospectively predicts
positive emotions and social connectedness. Biological psychology,
85(3), 432-436.
