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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The growing interest in and prevalence of the use of psychedelics, as well as the potential benefits and negative consequences associated with psychedelic experiences, create a need for mental health specialists to be able to provide adequate and ...
Jakub Greń +8 more
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Self-blinding citizen science to explore psychedelic microdosing
eLife, 2021 Microdosing is the practice of regularly using low doses of psychedelic drugs. Anecdotal reports suggest that microdosing enhances well-being and cognition; however, such accounts are potentially biased by the placebo effect.
Balázs Szigeti +7 more
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Self unbound: ego dissolution in psychedelic experience [PDF]
, 2017 Users of psychedelic drugs often report that their sense of being a self or ‘I’ distinct from the rest of the world has diminished or altogether dissolved.
Gerrans, Philip, Letheby, Chris
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Study Protocol for “Psilocybin as a Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: A Pilot Study”
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious and life-threatening psychiatric condition. With a paucity of approved treatments, there is a desperate need for novel treatment avenues to be explored.
Meg J. Spriggs +13 more
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European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2020 Cognitive-behavioural conjoint therapy (CBCT) for PTSD has been shown to improve PTSD, relationship adjustment, and the health and well-being of partners. MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) has been used to facilitate an individual therapy for PTSD.
Candice M. Monson +9 more
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Shannon entropy of brain functional complex networks under the influence of the psychedelic Ayahuasca [PDF]
, 2016 The entropic brain hypothesis holds that the key facts concerning psychedelics are partially explained in terms of increased entropy of the brain's functional connectivity.
de Araujo, Draulio B. +4 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Background: Recent years have seen a resurgence of research on the potential of psychedelic substances to treat addictive and mood disorders. Historically and contemporarily, psychedelic studies have emphasized the importance of contextual elements ('set
H. Kettner +7 more
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Inhibition of alpha oscillations through serotonin-2A receptor activation underlies the visual effects of ayahuasca in humans [PDF]
, 2016 Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychotropic plant tea typically obtained from two plants, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis. It contains the psychedelic 5-HT2A and sigma-1 agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) plus ß-carboline alkaloids with ...
Alonso, Joan Francesc +12 more
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Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity. [PDF]
, 2018 Atrophy of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a key role in the pathophysiology of depression and related disorders. The ability to promote both structural and functional plasticity in the PFC has been hypothesized to underlie the fast ...
Barragan, Eden V +15 more
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Psychedelic Cognition—The Unreached Frontier of Psychedelic Science
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Psychedelic compounds hold the promise of changing the face of neuroscience and psychiatry as we know it. There have been numerous proposals to use them to treat a range of neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, anxiety, addiction and PTSD; and trials to date have delivered positive results in favor of the novel therapeutics.
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