Abstract Objective: Psychedelic-assisted therapies are emerging as safe and effective treatments for some psychological conditions including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders. As ketamine therapy is already available in general medicine 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) psilocybin late-stage clinical trials, neuropsychologists should be aware of ...

Expanding on the work of Forstmann and Sagioglou, this study investigated differences in personality pro-environmental behavior (PEB) as a function psychedelic-occasioned mystical experiences. A sample 240 participants with prior psychedelic experience completed an online survey. Data were collected participants’ states, personality, self-reported PEB. measure behavioral PEB was also included (...

This article details a correction to: Bailey, J. and Kempner, J., 2022. Standards Without Labs: Drug Development in the Psychedelic Underground. Citizen Science: Theory Practice, 7(1), p.41. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.527

Ketamine, a dissociative anaesthetic in use since 1970, produces prominent psychoactive effects in humans. Its non-medical use has raised concerns in many countries, including Singapore. This paper narrates the psychedelic and psychotic effects of ketamine in two ketamine dependent patients who have presented to the psychiatric service. These effects were dose-related and comprised multimodal h...

Since at least 1500 B.C. men have, from time to time, held the view that our normal vision of the world is a hallucination—a dream, a figment of the mind, or, to use the Hindu word which means both art and illusion, a maya. The implication is that, if this is so, life need never be taken seriously. It is a fantasy, a play, a drama to be enjoyed. It does not really matter, for one day (perhaps i...

When the link between psychedelic drugs and mystical states of experience was first discovered in 1960s, Huston Smith challenged scholars religion philosophy to consider implications. Very few took up his challenge. Beginning 2006, hundreds studies have linked psychedelics not just but potential treatments for many mental health disorders. Regulatory approval therapies is on horizon, millions p...

Abstract Psychedelic drugs show promise as safe and effective treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders, yet their mechanisms of action are not fully understood. A fundamental hypothesis is that psychedelics work by dose-dependently changing the functional hierarchy brain dynamics, but it unclear whether different act similarly. Here, we investigated changes in brain’s associated with two (LSD ...

Psychedelic microdosing, or taking small doses of psychedelic substances that do not induce intoxication altered states but rather subtle outcomes such as increased focus, has quickly become a mass media phenomenon. Many claim microdosing the new secret to enhancement in work contexts. Drawing from literature on technologies self, self-identity and sociology leisure, this study understands tech...