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Psychedelics as novel therapeutic agents for chronic pain: mechanisms and future perspectives

open access: yesExploration of Neuroscience
Chronic neuropathic pain is a significant public health issue affecting an estimated 1.5 billion individuals worldwide. The mechanisms underlying chronic pain are multifaceted and not fully understood. Chronic pain amplifies specific neural pathways through peripheral and central sensitization triggered by repeated exposure to noxious stimuli ...
Bushra Yasin   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, September 30, 2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Volume 143, Issue 14https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1513/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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THE PROTOTYPICAL PSYCHEDELIC AGENT LSD PRODUCES RAPID ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECTS VIA 5-HT2B RECEPTOR ACTIVATION

open access: yesInternational Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
Abstract Background Recent clinical trials reveal that serotonergic psychedelics, including the prototypical hallucinogen lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), present a promising potential for treating psychiatric disorders, including treatment-resistant depression.
Bouloufa, Amel   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Symbionts. Expanding the Scope of Cognitive Science With Fungi

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been argued that fungi have cognitive capacities, and even conscious experiences. While these arguments risk ushering in unproductive disputes about how words like “mind,” “cognitive,” “sentient,” and “conscious” should be used, paying close attention to key properties of fungal life can also be uncontroversially productive for ...
Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, October 25, 1991 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
Volume 97, Issue 39https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8176/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +1 more source

The Therapeutic Potentials of Ayahuasca: Possible Effects against Various Diseases of Civilization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychoactive brew of two main components. Its active agents are β-carboline and tryptamine derivatives. As a sacrament, ayahuasca is still a central element of many healing ceremonies in the Amazon Basin and its ritual ...
Bokor, Petra   +2 more
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Rare but relevant: Ibogaine and cardiovascular complications—prolonged QT interval and ventricular arrhythmias

open access: yesAddiction, Volume 121, Issue 6, Page 1616-1621, June 2026.
Abstract Revived interest in psychedelic‐assisted therapies has also renewed focus on ibogaine, a psychoactive alkaloid, for its notable anti‐addictive potential. Evidence from observational, open‐label, and limited randomized placebo‐controlled trials indicates that ibogaine and its metabolite noribogaine reduce craving and withdrawal symptoms in ...
Tibor Markus Brunt
wiley   +1 more source

Psychedelic therapy from an existential psychological viewpoint : a theoretical analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Clinical research into the therapeutic applications of classical psychedelics has slowly but steadily resumed over the last couple of decades. Continuing the research that went dormant in the late 1960‟s, modern trials are looking into the use of high ...
Berg, Stian Hyman
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