“…Interestingly, the mPFC/ACC is strongly implicated in self-referential processing as well as mentalizing about others (D'Argembeau et al, 2007;Dixon, Thiruchselvam, Todd, & Christoff, 2017). This association between hierarchical position and ego-dissolution is particularly noteworthy given past findings that ego-dissolution and related mystical-type phenomena are key mediators of positive outcomes in psychedelic treatment paradigms (Belser et al, 2017;Johnson et al, 2019;Roseman, Nutt, & Carhart-Harris, 2018;Watts, Day, Krzanowski, Nutt, & Carhart-Harris, 2017).…”