Hoping to gather new insights into how psychedelics alter a person’s conscious experience, scientists conducted an experiment with DMT (dimethyltryptamine). fMRI allowed us to see the whole of the brain, including its deepest structures, and EEG helped us view the brain’s fine-grained rhythmic activity,” Professor Robin Carhart-Harris, founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, said. He added that psychedelics are powerful tools for understanding how brain activity relates to conscious experience