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Adverse effects of ayahuasca: Results from the Global Ayahuasca Survey

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Introduction Ayahuasca is a plant-based decoction native to Amazonia, where it has a long history of use in traditional medicine. Contemporary ritual use of ayahuasca has been expanding throughout the world for mental health purposes, and for spiritual and personal growth.
Bouso, José Carlos, Andión, Óscar, Sarris, Jerome J, Scheidegger, Milan, Tófoli, Luís Fernando, Opaleye, Emérita Sátiro, Schubert, Violeta, Perkins, Daniel   +7 more
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Registered Clinical Trials of Ayahuasca and DMT: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

Clin Pharmacol Ther
Interest in ayahuasca and its main component, N,N‐Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), has currently moved from historical and experimental use into modern clinical development. Yet, current evidence is fragmented, and systematic mapping of trial methods and design choices remains limited.
Stojanović T, Nilsson KW, Fredriksson R, Schiöth HB, Moulin TC.   +4 more
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Ayahuasca use and reported effects on depression and anxiety symptoms: An international cross-sectional study of 11,912 consumers

Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2021
Background: Ayahuasca is a psychoactive Amazonian brew which has emerging data indicating that it has antidepressant and anxiolytic properties. Methods: This paper uses data from the Global Ayahuasca Project (GAP), which was undertaken across 2017–2020 ...
Violeta Schubert, Jérôme Sarris, Nicole L Galvao-Coelho   +2 more
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Psychedelic Therapy and the Role of Music: A Scoping Review of Quantitative Evidence on Subjective and Objective Outcomes. [PDF]

Brain Behav
ABSTRACT Purpose Psychedelics have received considerable attention due to their potential in treating psychiatric disorders. The “setting” during psychedelic‐assisted therapy (PAT) is recognized as playing a central role in the experience, during which music features prominently. Although music is theorized as directing and shaping psychedelic sessions,
Rowe T, Hurzeler T, Towers E, Louie E, Morley KC.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ayahuasca’s ‘afterglow’: improved mindfulness and cognitive flexibility in ayahuasca drinkers

Psychopharmacology, 2020
There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the therapeutic potential of ayahuasca for treating depression and anxiety. However, the mechanisms of action involved in ayahuasca's therapeutic effects are unclear. Mindfulness and cognitive flexibility may be two possible psychological mechanisms. Like other classic psychedelics, ayahuasca also leads
Kirstie Soar
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Ayahuasca

Ciencias Sociales y Religión/Ciências Sociais e Religião, 2021
O fenômeno de expansão do uso do yagé da América do Sul para o restante do mundo é caracterizado especialmente a partir da ideia da globalização da ahayuasca. No entanto, essa expansão foi mais recentemente acompanhada da configuração da ideia de uma comunidade ahayuasqueira internacional.
Deana Goldin, Deborah Salani
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Las propiedades farmacocinéticas del ayahuasca / The pharmacological properties of ayahuasca [PDF]

Liberabit, 2015
RESUMEN Se describe las características químicas y los efectos del consumo del ayahuasca para conocer el estado actual de los descubrimientos existentes hasta la fecha sobre sus propiedades farmacocinéticas. Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica sobre estudios del ayahuasca hasta el año 2013 en inglés, español y portugués en las bases de datos de ...
Guillermo Saúl Escobar Cornejo
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Subjective time under altered states of consciousness in ayahuasca users in shamanistic rituals involving music [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2020
Ayahuasca is described as a hallucinogenic substance whose property is to alter the subjective experience of time and impair the perception of the passage of time during stimuli of more than two to three seconds.
A.P.S. Campagnoli, L.A.S. Pereira, J.L.O. Bueno   +2 more
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Preliminary evidence of links between ayahuasca use and the corpus callosum

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundRecent research suggests that ayahuasca and its alkaloid-containing ingredients may be helpful in the treatment and prevention of certain movement and neurodegenerative disorders.
Otto Simonsson, Otto Simonsson, José Carlos Bouso, José Carlos Bouso, José Carlos Bouso, Florian Kurth, Dráulio B. Araújo, Dráulio B. Araújo, Christian Gaser, Christian Gaser, Jordi Riba, Eileen Luders, Eileen Luders, Eileen Luders   +13 more
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Effects of Ayahuasca on Personality: Results of Two Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials in Healthy Volunteers

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Rationale: Previous studies with the serotonergic hallucinogens LSD and psilocybin showed that these drugs induced changes in personality traits, such as increases in Openness.
Juliana Mendes Rocha, Giordano Novak Rossi, Flávia L. Osório, Flávia L. Osório, José Carlos Bouso Saiz, José Carlos Bouso Saiz, José Carlos Bouso Saiz, Gabriela De Oliveira Silveira, Mauricio Yonamine, Eduardo José Crevelin, Maria Eugênia Queiroz, Maria Eugênia Queiroz, Maria Eugênia Queiroz, Jaime E. Cecílio Hallak, Jaime E. Cecílio Hallak, Rafael Guimarães Dos Santos, Rafael Guimarães Dos Santos, Rafael Guimarães Dos Santos   +17 more
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