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On the varieties of conscious experiences: Altered Beliefs Under Psychedelics (ALBUS)

open access: yesNeuroscience of Consciousness
How is it that psychedelics so profoundly impact brain and mind? According to the model of “Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics” (REBUS), 5-HT2a agonism is thought to help relax prior expectations, thus making room for new perspectives and patterns. Here,
A. Safron   +4 more
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Default Mode Network Modulation by Psychedelics: A Systematic Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022
Psychedelics are a unique class of drug that commonly produce vivid hallucinations as well as profound psychological and mystical experiences. A grouping of interconnected brain regions characterized by increased temporal coherence at rest have been ...
J. Gattuso   +13 more
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On Minimizing Risk and Harm in the Use of Psychedelics

open access: yesPsychiatric Research and Clinical Practice
Objective This article outlines recommendations from 30 psychedelic researchers on how to create a better psychedelic safety net. Methods A survey of 30 psychedelic researchers asked them to identify key critical research gaps around psychedelic harm and
Jules Evans   +30 more
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Neuroplasticity and Psychedelics: A comprehensive examination of classic and non-classic compounds in pre and clinical models. [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Neuroplasticity, the ability of the nervous system to adapt throughout an organism's lifespan, offers potential as both a biomarker and treatment target for neuropsychiatric conditions.
C. Agnorelli   +10 more
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Psychedelics Drug Legislative Reform ant legalization in the US

open access: yesJAMA psychiatry, 2022
Importance Psychedelic drugs are becoming accessible to Americans through a patchwork of state legislative reforms. This shift necessitates consensus on treatment models, education and guidance for healthcare providers, and planning for implementation ...
J. Siegel   +3 more
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Association between mystical-type experiences under psychedelics and improvements in well-being or mental health – A comprehensive review of the evidence

open access: yesJournal of Psychedelic Studies, 2023
Ingestion or administration of classic psychedelics is sometimes associated with improvements in well-being or mental health. Acute mystical-type experiences that psychedelics occasion have been suggested to be related to such improvements.
S. Kangaslampi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cognition, emotion, and the alcohol - Aggression relationship:Comment on Giancola (2000) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
P. R. Giancola's (2000) thesis that the alcohol-aggression relationship can be explained by alcohol-induced disruption of executive cognitive functions mediated by the prefrontal cortex is critically examined. At moderate doses, alcohol has been reported
Lyvers, M.
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The Psychedelic Influence on Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A mildly chronological overview of the philosophers who may have been inspired by the use of psychoactive chemicals, inc. Plato, de Quincey, Davy, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Bergson, Benjamin, Jünger, Paz, Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault; and a mention of
Sjöstedt-H., Peter
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Decreased mental time travel to the past correlates with default-mode network disintegration under lysergic acid diethylamide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper reports on the effects of LSD on mental time travel during spontaneous mentation. Twenty healthy volunteers participated in a placebo-controlled crossover study, incorporating intravenous administration of LSD (75 μg) and placebo (saline ...
Cohen S   +14 more
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Are “mystical experiences” essential for antidepressant actions of ketamine and the classic psychedelics?

open access: yesEuropean Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
The growing interest in the rapid and sustained antidepressant effects of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine and classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin, is remarkable.
Kenji Hashimoto
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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