Neuropsychopharmacology researcher Robin Carhart-Harris explains his LSD brain scan study and possible therapeutic uses of the drug. “We found that regions normally don’t talk to each other began to talk to each other much more. There was a much more global integration in the brain that was quite surprising.” Original Article (CNN):LSD Researcher explains brain…
The team gave 20 volunteers infusions on two days, once containing 75 micrograms of LSD, the other a placebo. Then volunteers lay in a scanner and had their brains imaged with three different techniques, which together built up a comprehensive picture of neural activity, both with the drug and without. “This is a milestone study,”…
“The team at Imperial that I am a part of, led by Dr Robin Carhart-Harris and Professor David Nutt, will shortly publish results of the first trial of psilocybin assisted psychotherapy in treatment resistant depression. Robin explains to Jamie that 2/3 of the patients in the study were depression free after 1 week, with 42%…
To put Garcia’s formulation in terms of a contemporary Silicon Valley venture capitalist might understand, LSD was a disruptive technology. And where did Kesey get the idea to conduct experiments on human beings with LSD? In 1959, he was an LSD [test participant] himself in tests conducted by the CIA. Original Article (Boingboing.net): The CIA’s…
The new publication marks the latest in a series of baby steps by a loose coalition of researchers and fund-raisers who are working to bring hallucinogens back into the fold of mainstream psychiatry. Before research was effectively banned in 1966 in the United States, doctors tested LSD’s effect for a variety of conditions, including end-of-life…
Matthew Johnson, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at John Hopkins University said that the study is catching the attention of a few, “more and more people are becoming interested and even jumping into the field to start trials themselves.” Original Article (Food News World): Scientists- Are psychedelic drugs poised to make a medical comeback?Artwork…
“What people say is that whatever they’re doing, they seem to be doing it a little better,” Fadiman told Live Science. “They’re a little kinder, a little bit nicer with their kids.” Proponents report improvements in perception, mood and focus, minus the trippy tangerine trees and marmalade skies normally associated with psychedelics. “It’s like the…
“We are not claiming that no individuals have ever been harmed by psychedelics,” says author Matthew Johnson, an associate professor in the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. “Anecdotes about acid casualties can be very powerful — but these instances are rare,” he says. At the population level, he says,…
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