We sat down with Manesh Girn, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience, McGill University Manesh Girn is a Neuroscience PhD student at McGill University and has been lead or co-author on a dozen scientific publications and book chapters on topics including psychedelics, meditation, mind-wandering, and brain network interactions. Manesh currently has ongoing collaborations with Robin Carhart-Harris and others at the Imperial College Center for Psychedelic Research and is investigating the brain changes underlying psilocybin, LSD, and DMT. He has had a passionate interest in psychedelics and their scientific investigation since his teens and also runs a psychedelic science YouTube channel – “The Psychedelic Scientist” – that provides accessible discussions of the latest research findings.