*Cascadia wildfires of Summer 2017 Psychologists from Yale University and the University of Innsbruck in Austria asked 1,487 people about their experience with psychedelics and other hallucinogens. However, the relationship between taking psychedelics and being green is only a correlation and the eco-friendly behaviors in the study were all self-reported. This begs the question:…
Between 2011-2050, the cumulative global economic output loss associated with mental health disorders is projected to be $16.3 trillion, making the economic output loss comparable to the entire GDP of the United States. Q : What is your biggest pet peeve about the health industry and why? A : My biggest pet peeve about the…
Mendel Kaelen, a PhD student in neuroscience at Imperial College, has led several studies investigating the combined influence of music and psychedelic drugs in human trials. One of the challenges? Choosing the music. Kaelen was involved in a groundbreaking trial that used fMRI and MEG scans to image the brain on LSD for the first…
According to Kaelen’s findings, published in the journals Neuropsychopharmacology and Psychopharmacology, brain scans of 22 subjects showed that LSD reduced connectivity between the visual cortex and parahippocampus — between what someone sees, and that person’s memories and imagination. But add music to the mix, he said, and the connectivity between the two brain regions goes…
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has granted breakthrough therapy designation to MDMA (street name, ecstasy ; clinical name, empathy) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The phase 3 trials will assess the efficacy and safety of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in 200 to 300 participants with PTSD, 18 years of age and older, at…
If you’re looking to have a good time with intoxicants with the lowest possible risk of landing in the emergency room, then this may be the drug for you. Magic mushrooms are the “safest” recreational drug, according to the 2017 Global Drug Survey. Of the 12,000 who took ‘shrooms, only 0.2 percent reported seeking medical…
A concern about being good and about avoiding evil may be seriously considered to have been the most destructive force in human life and human history precisely, because—paradoxical as this may be and as I have already stated—the more we criminalize those we regard evil, and the more severe we become in our prohibitions, the…
When it comes to depression, however, the results have been extremely positive. “What people report is that sometimes from the first or second cycle, a lot of their depression lifts; they’re more functional, they take care of themselves better, and it’s quite remarkable.” This is all the more impressive when one considers that most of…
The war on drugs we have been fighting for almost a century now has made everything worse … “the opposite of addiction is not sobriety; the opposite of addiction is connection.” The word “addiction” is outdated, although this descriptor is still used as common vernacular among the general public. It is more appropriate to…
“Regulators, governments, health economists, health systems, insurers, health-care professionals, and—most importantly—patients,” said George Goldsmith, the former CEO of McKinsey & Company’s TomorrowLab, and an advocate for the kind of therapeutic innovation psychedelic researchers are hoping to achieve. “That’s the next community that actually needs to be engaged here.” For Doblin, it represents a life’s effort,…
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