Psychedelics, entactogens and psychoplastogens for depression and related disorders
British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Currently, the most actively investigated rapidly acting antidepressants, anxiolytics and/or anti PTSD agents, include psychedelics e.g. psilocybin, LSD, N,N‐dimethyltryptamine, ayahuasca; non‐hallucinogenic entactogens, e.g. MDMA; psychoplastogens which rapidly promote neuroplasticity, e.g.
Daniel Hoyer
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The Power of Social Attribution: Perspectives on the Healing Efficacy of Ayahuasca
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 During the last decades, ayahuasca gained much popularity among non-Indigenous and out-of-Amazonia based populations. In popular culture, it has been advertised as a natural remedy that was discovered by Indigenous peoples ante millennia and that has ...
Bernd Brabec de Mori +1 more
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Ayahuasca and cancer treatment
SAGE Open Medicine, 2013 Objectives: Comprehensively review the evidence regarding the use of ayahuasca, an Amerindian medicine traditionally used to treat many different illnesses and diseases, to treat some types of cancer. Methods: An in-depth review of the literature was conducted using PubMed, books, institutional magazines, conferences and online texts in nonprofessional
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Are we hallucinating or can psychedelic drugs modulate the immune system to control inflammation?
British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Psychedelic drugs that activate 5‐HT2A receptors have been long used for cultural, medicinal and recreational purposes. Interest in psychedelics for treating psychiatric disorders has resurged recently and is well documented; less well recognised are their anti‐inflammatory properties. Growing evidence now demonstrates that psychedelics modulate immune
Omar Qureshi +10 more
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Otherwise Ayahuasca Expressions. Ritual Reinvention and Social Change in Ayahuasca Rituals
Studia ReligiologicaThis article examines a range of hybrid, artistic ayahuasca ritual formations that I define as otherwise ayahuasca expressions to engage with the question of ritual reinvention.
Piera Talin
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The ‘Edibility Approach’: Using Edibility to Explore Relationships, Plant Agency and the Porosity of Species’ Boundaries [PDF]
, 2017 This paper introduces the Edibility Approach, which proposes that the condi-tion of ‘being edible’ is a mechanism that some plants employ to influence their in-gesters to care for them.
Attala, Luci
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Ayahuasca Treatment Outcome Project (ATOP): One-Year Results from Takiwasi Center and Implications for Psychedelic Science [PDF]
, 2023 Brian Rush +5 more
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British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Theorized mechanism of dopamine homeostasis restoration in the nucleus accumbens core induced by a psychedelic intervention. Abstract Psychedelics have garnered great attention in recent years as treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment‐resistant depression because of their ability to alter consciousness and afflicted cognitive ...
Lucas Wittenkeller +3 more
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Ayahuasca, Pain, and Inflammation: A Systematic Review of Preclinical Studies
PsychoactivesPain is a protective mechanism that can be classified into acute and chronic types. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew rich in dimethyltryptamine or DMT (a 5-HT2A receptor agonist), and harmine (a monoamine-oxidase (MAO) inhibitor) used for religious and ...
Bianca Villanova +5 more
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Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2016 Objective: To conduct a systematic literature review of animal and human studies reporting anxiolytic or antidepressive effects of ayahuasca or some of its isolated alkaloids (dimethyltryptamine, harmine, tetrahydroharmine, and harmaline).
Rafael G. dos Santos +3 more
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