Plenary and opening welcome to Psychedelic Science 2017 - Rick Doblin, PhD, Amanda Feilding, and Beatriz Labate, PhD.
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Dr. Phil Wolfson explores psychedelic psychotherapy for illness-related trauma. Recognizing the too-often traumatic impact of life-threatening illness on emotions, spirit, and community is a worldwide obligation.
Mark is the chair of MAPS Canada, and has been educating people about all aspects of drugs for decades. We talk MAPS research with MDMA and trauma, but also harm reduction strategies, speaking to youth about drugs, and strategies for the future of regulating these substances legally.
Mark Haden will explore the history and current research and possible future regulation of psychedelics. He will begin with an overview of indigenous history then explore the history in Canada and why psychedelics were criminalized.
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Mark Haden returns to update us on what has been transpiring over the past year in the realms of scientific inquiry of psychedelic medicines. Mark is the Chair of MAPS Canada (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies).
An uncut interview with Mark Haden on the subject of the War on Drugs. Mark is a professor at the University of British Columbia. He has been published on the issue of drug policy in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, and the International Journal of Drug Policy.
Rick Doblin - "Psychedelics: Mystical Experiences, Cultural Evolution, Non-Profit MDMA/PTSD Research, and Burning Man" Rick Doblin, the co-founder and CEO of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS, www.maps.
Could psychedelics help us heal from trauma and mental illnesses? Researcher Rick Doblin has spent the past three decades investigating this question, and the results are promising.
New research using psychedelic drugs to understand the brain could lead to new treatments for mental disorders such as depression.
Abstract: Highlighting the results of two fMRI studies and one MEG study with psilocybin and an fMRI study with MDMA, Carhart-Harris will report the effects of both drugs on regional brain activity and brain network organization.
Psychedelics afford a unique opportunity to expand our understanding of consciousness and its altered states, to develop techniques for enhancing consciousness, and to uncover new avenues of treatment and improved therapeutic techniques.