Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 One of the most recent and potentially promising advancements in the health sciences has involved the attempted use of psychedelics for treating mental and behavioral health problems, such as anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and ...
Edmund C. Neuhaus +2 more
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Serotonergic Psychedelics in Neural Plasticity
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2021 Psychedelics, compounds that can induce dramatic changes in conscious experience, have been used by humans for centuries. Recent studies have shown that certain psychedelics can induce neural plasticity by promoting neurite growth and synapse formation ...
Kacper Lukasiewicz +3 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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Validation of a new instrument for assessing attitudes on psychedelics in the general population
Scientific Reports, 2022 Although there is research interest to assess attitudes on psychedelics, no validated instrument exists for this purpose. We aimed to develop and examine the psychometric properties of the Attitudes on Psychedelics Questionnaire (APQ) in a sample of the ...
Marija Franka Žuljević +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 IntroductionPsychedelic-assisted therapy with psilocybin has shown promise in Phase 2 trials for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Set and setting, particularly factors facilitating a connection with nature, may positively influence the psychedelic experience ...
Keith G. Heinzerling +11 more
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Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent media advocacy for the nascent psychedelic medicine industry has emphasized the potential for psychedelics to improve society, pointing to research studies that have linked psychedelics to increased environmental concern and liberal politics ...
Brian A. Pace +2 more
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The varieties of the psychedelic experience: A preliminary study of the association between the reported subjective effects and the binding affinity profiles of substituted phenethylamines and tryptamines [PDF]
, 2018 Classic psychedelics are substances of paramount cultural and neuroscientific importance. A distinctive feature of psychedelic drugs is the wide range of potential subjective effects they can elicit, known to be deeply influenced by the internal state of
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Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2022 Recently, there has been an increase in studies yielding evidence for psychedelics' anxiolytic and anti-depressive qualities. Preliminary evidence for treatment in substance addiction is also available.
Magdalena Wizła +2 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.
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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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