Psilocybin occasioned mystical-type experiences: immediate and persisting dose-related effects
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Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness.
A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin occa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychopharmacology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0033-3158,1432-2072
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2358-5