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The current state of research on ayahuasca

June 16, 2016By admin0 comment

A systematic review of human studies assessing psychiatric symptoms, neuropsychological functioning, and neuroimaging. Acute AYA administration was well tolerated, increased introspection and positive mood, altered visual perceptions, activated frontal and paralimbic regions and decreased default mode network activity. It also improved planning and inhibitory control and impaired working memory, and showed anti-depressive and anti-addictive potentials.…

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Chronic marijuana use is about as bad for your health as not flossing, researchers find

June 7, 2016By admin0 comment

After controlling for other factors known to affect health, especially tobacco use and socioeconomic status, marijuana use had no negative effect on any measure of health, except for dental health. People who smoked more weed had a higher incidence of gum disease. It’s also worth pointing out that this particular study looked at the impact…

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LSD-Like drugs are out of the haze and back in the labs

May 22, 2016By admin0 comment

Even so, Ms. Marcy, who is now free of cancer, says Timothy Leary got it one-third right. “The ‘turn on’ doesn’t have to be emphasized at all,” she said. “The ‘drop out’ is an absolute mistake. But the ‘tune in’ is crucial.” “I tuned in,” she said. “Tuned in to the world, to me, to…

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The war on drugs may have misrepresented psychedelics; here’s why that matters

May 15, 2016By admin0 comment

“Even Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), tried LSD after creating AA and found the drug to be revolutionary in the treatment of addiction as well as depression. Wilson actually pitched the addition of LSD to the 12-step program to the AA board, which rejected the idea.” Independent and small-scale research studies, however,…

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From Psilocybin to MDMA: Researchers are in the throes of a psychedelic revival

May 9, 2016By admin0 comment

Those who reported a “mystical experience” had the most success in breaking their addiction. Griffiths’s lab pressed ahead with their work in a 2014 study on the possibility of treating nicotine addiction with psilocybin, the psychedelic component of “magic mushrooms.” Participants had three psilocybin sessions and three cognitive-behavioral therapy sessions to diminish cravings. Eighty percent…

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[LSD] …lights up the brain’s visual cortex and points at the brain regions involved in “altered consciousness.”

April 27, 2016By admin0 comment

“What they discovered could have major effects on the way we use psychedelics to model and treat psychiatric diseases.” Rather than using LSD itself as a psychological drug — there are certainly other scientists working on that — Carhart-Harris and his team used it as a probe for understanding what they refer to as the…

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LSD researcher explains brain scan study

April 15, 2016By admin0 comment

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…

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First LSD brain imaging study offers insights into consciousness

April 11, 2016By admin0 comment

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,”…

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Marijuana extract slashes pediatric seizures, landmark study confirms

January 27, 2016By admin0 comment

“After three months of treatment, the frequency of all seizures was reduced by a median of 45 percent in all participants. Almost half (47%) of the participants in the study experienced a 50 percent or greater reduction in seizures and nine percent of patients were seizure-free”. Among specific patient populations, DS patients had a…

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Effects of long-term ayahuasca administration on memory and anxiety in rats

January 27, 2016By admin0 comment

Neuropsychological investigation have found that long-term ayahuasca users had better performance than control subjects on tests of frontal function and on the WHO-UCLA auditory verbal learning test. Since the 1980s, churches in which ayahuasca is prepared and consumed have been spreading to urban centers initially in South America and then in North America and in…

The current state of research on ayahuasca

Chronic marijuana use is about as bad for your health as not flossing, researchers find

LSD-Like drugs are out of the haze and back in the labs

The war on drugs may have misrepresented psychedelics; here’s why that matters

From Psilocybin to MDMA: Researchers are in the throes of a psychedelic revival

[LSD] …lights up the brain’s visual cortex and points at the brain regions involved in “altered consciousness.”

LSD researcher explains brain scan study

First LSD brain imaging study offers insights into consciousness

Marijuana extract slashes pediatric seizures, landmark study confirms

Effects of long-term ayahuasca administration on memory and anxiety in rats

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