This presentation will review the history of scientific research into use psychedelic medicines for treatment existential distress due to life-threatening illnesses, it then outline current state affairs in North America, and conclude with exploring implications have on future palliative care.
 Despite significant advances field care regards symptom management, pain control particular, we ...

This review of symmetry perception has six parts. Psychophysical studies have investigated for over 100 years (part 1). Neuroscientific on accumulated in the last 20 years. Functional MRI and EEG experiments conclusively shown that regular visual arrangements, such as reflectional symmetry, Glass patterns, 17 wallpaper groups all activate extrastriate cortex. activation generates an event-relat...

The past decade brought the beginnings of a renaissance in research on psychedelic drugs. Two articles in this issue of Biological Psychiatry signify that the resurrection of this longignored topic has begun to mature and bear at least the promise of fruit. In the early 1970s, the onset of the “War on Drugs” brought with it a near-total hiatus in serious research on psychedelic drugs, especiall...

Human creativity is difficult to define and measure, but it is undoubtedly an important cognitive process. This makes it an interesting challenge for modern neuroscientific exploration - especially given the current interest in developing cognitive enhancers for commercial and clinical uses. There are similarities between the typical traits of creative people and the subjective psychological ch...