…eating psychedelic mushrooms to heighten or otherwise enhance… experience of virtual reality. “I think the use of VR to help cultivate a therapeutic setting could be quite valuable in the applications of psychedelic medicine,” Merete Christiansen, executive associate at MAPS, tells Inverse. Original Article (Leafly):Psychedelics and Virtual Reality Make a Trendy but Illegal TherapyArtwork Fair…
According to Johnson, depression and addiction both involve a narrowing of vision—a tunnel that it takes a profound experience to suck someone out of. Psilocybin, he says, can foster something called cross-talk between regions of the brain that don’t normally communicate. Cross-talk, in turn, is associated with novel ways of looking at problems. They’re “dealing…
*Linear regression with variance decomposition indicating the percent of variance in adjusted regional cortical thickness measures from FreeSurfer accounted for by regressors. Dur IP Physical – duration of witnessing interparental physical aggression (years), Dur IP Verbal – duration of witnessing interparental verbal aggression without physical violence (years), Financial Suf – perceived financial sufficiency during childhood,…
“When I brought up the idea to my postdoctoral mentor, he nearly laughed me out of the office and said I’d have to do it on my own own,” says Peter Hendricks, assistant professor of health behavior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. [He writes], “When you control for all…
*woman, 32 years old; alcoholic paralysis…the fingers are in the interosseous position & there is marked degeneration and atrophy of the extensors of the fingers, with the exception of the wrist and thumb. Twenty patients, recruited through the recreational drug and alcohol services in Bristol, will be given the drug in capsule form during two…
The comedown, however, also offers an excellent opportunity to examine and reaffirm relationships, to discuss and explore feelings that may have come up during the trip, and to reflect on yourself and your joy. One issue that has come up for both myself and friends, though, is a feeling of insecurity. You might suddenly feel…
“Combined use with alcohol and use within risky or unfamiliar settings increase the risks of harm most commonly accidental injury, panic and short-lived confusion, disorientation, and fears of losing one’s mind,” Winstock told the Guardian.” But while there have been unfortunate incidents involving mushrooms, there have been studies that have shown psilocybin mushrooms could…
The ayahuasca group presented a lower level of grief in the Present Feelings Scale of Texas Revised Inventory of Grief, showing benefits in some psychological and interpersonal dimensions. The death of a loved one is ultimately a universal experience. However, conventional interventions employed for people suffering with uncomplicated grief have gathered little empirical support. The…
Hilda Burke, a London-based psychotherapist and couples counselor, says the common thread between couples seeking therapy is that they’ve lost the ability to communicate with each other. “They’ve become so polarized that they can’t really go over to the other person’s island and see how it is from their perspective.” Dr. Ros Watts is a…
Modern relationships are challenging for a whole range of reasons, and these reasons might be very different from one couple to the next. Drug-based treatments aren’t always going to be the best approach, and sometimes they should even be avoided. From the perspective of evolutionary biology, love is a complex neurobiological phenomenon that has been…
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