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Psychedelic Therapy with Roland Griffiths, PhD

By Roland Griffiths — 2020

Psilocybin, LSD and other psychedelic drugs were once considered promising treatments for depression, anxiety and other mental health ailments. Now, after a decades-long lull, researchers are once again looking into the therapeutic potential of these drugs. See more...

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Scientists Gave Depressed Patients Psilocybin in a First for Psychedelic Therapy

In a recent UK trial, 12 patients with major depression took a pill quite different to commonly prescribed antidepressants: 25mg of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms.

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We Can No Longer Ignore the Potential of Psychedelic Drugs to Treat Depression

At Imperial College we’ve been comparing psilocybin to conventional antidepressants—and the results are likely to be game-changing.

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Magic Mushrooms Expand the Mind by Dampening Brain Activity

A new brain-scan study helps explain how psilocybin works—and why it holds promise as a treatment for depression, addiction and post-traumatic stress.

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Your Brain on Psilocybin

How magic mushrooms expand consciousness.

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DMT Alters Cortical Travelling Waves

These results support a recent model proposing that psychedelics reduce the ‘precision-weighting of priors’, thus altering the balance of top-down versus bottom-up information passing.

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The Trip Treatment

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results.

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DMT Models the Near-Death Experience

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences, which have been previously associated with the psychedelic experience and more specifically with the experience induced by the potent serotonergic, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).

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For the First Time, Scientists Have Imaged the Brain on LSD

The scientists hope their long-awaited study on LSD in humans will open the floodgates to further research into psychedelics.

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