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Toxicokinetics and Toxicodynamics of Ayahuasca Alkaloids N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), Harmine, Harmaline and Tetrahydroharmine: Clinical and Forensic Impact

Pharmaceuticals, 2020
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic botanical beverage originally used by indigenous Amazonian tribes in religious ceremonies and therapeutic practices. While ethnobotanical surveys still indicate its spiritual and medicinal uses, consumption of ayahuasca has ...
Andreia Machado Brito-da-Costa, Diana Dias-da-Silva, Nelson G. M. Gomes, Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira, Áurea Madureira-Carvalho   +4 more
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Amazonian Visions: Animating Ghosts [PDF]

, 2013
Amazonian Visions is a practice-based research project that finds associations between the concepts of expanded cinema and animation, and the myriad worlds of the Amazonian psychedelic brew, ayahuasca.
Cerquera Benjumea, Gustavo
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Long-term benefits to psychological health and well-being after ceremonial use of Ayahuasca in Middle Eastern and North African immigrants and refugees

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Background Refugees and immigrants can experience complex stressors from the process of immigration that can have lasting and severe long-term mental health consequences.
Matthew X. Lowe, Hannes Kettner, Del R. P. Jolly, R. Carhart-Harris, Heather Jackson   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 178-198, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Neuroenhancement [PDF]

, 2017
In this chapter, we introduce the notion of “moral neuroenhancement,” offering a novel definition as well as spelling out three conditions under which we expect that such neuroenhancement would be most likely to be permissible (or ...
Douglas, Thomas, Earp, Brian D., Savulescu, Julian   +2 more
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Combined Neuroprotective Effects of N,N‐Dimethyltryptamine and Ventral Root Reimplantation Following Spinal Root Avulsion in Rats

Journal of Neurochemistry, Volume 170, Issue 2, February 2026.
The ventral root avulsion (VRA) model provides an excellent experimental paradigm for studying injuries at the Central/Peripheral Nervous Systems (CNS/PNS) interface. By physically disconnecting motoneurons (MNs) from the spinal cord surface, VRA induces profound cellular, molecular, and functional deficits with limited spontaneous recovery.
Paola Andrea Caro Aponte, Edison Huertas Montoya, Italo O. Mazali, Alessandra Sussulini, Benedito Barraviera, Rui Seabra Ferreira Jr., Luciana Politti Cartarozzi, Alexandre Leite Rodrigues de Oliveira   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms [PDF]

, 2017
Psilocybin with psychological support is showing promise as a treatment model in psychiatry but its therapeutic mechanisms are poorly understood.
Bolstridge, Mark, Carhart-Harris, Robin L, Curran, H Valerie, Demetriou, Lysia, Kaelen, Mendel, Leech, Robert, McGonigle, John, Murphy, Kevin, Nutt, David J, Pannekoek, J Nienke, Roseman, Leor, Tanner, Mark, Wall, Matthew B   +12 more
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Ayahuasca ceremonies, relationality, and inner-outer transformations to sustainability. Evidence from Takiwasi Center in Peru

Ecosystems and People
The use of psychedelic substances is increasingly associated with nature-relatedness. We explore whether entheogenic uses of ayahuasca in settings co-produced between Indigenous and Western knowledges may also foster relationality and sustainability ...
David Manuel-Navarrete, Serena DeLuca, Fabio Friso, Matteo Politi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is Addiction Research Addicted to Artificial Intelligence? Mapping the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Substance Use and Mental Health Through a Bibliometric Analysis

Drug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Issues From extracting insights from large‐scale, multimodal data to prevention and support, there is growing interest in the applications and implications of recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the fields of addiction, substance use and mental health, which we refer to as ASUM.
Loïs Vanhée, Simone Scarpa
wiley   +1 more source

El uso de la Ayahuasca en la Amazonia [PDF]

, 2010
The yagé is a hallucinogenic plant (Banisteriopsis caapi) widely distributed in Colombia, Perú, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and Bolivia, of which gets ready a drink (Ayahuasca) consumed from immemorial times inside an indigenous ritual context.
Correa, Marco, Frausin Bustamante, Gina, Trujillo, Edwin, Trujillo, William   +3 more
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