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Psychedelic research in popular literature

December 6, 2021 / Articles, Background articles, Other, Publications, Research / By

Kijk2The Dutch KIJK magazine printed an article on research on psychedelics. “Tripping away your problems: a slow revival of drugs as medicine”. Reporter Jop de Vrieze interviewed scientists among whom psychiatrists Andrew Feldmár en Charles Grob. Upon the interviews he based that nowadays psychedelics are a “full grown part of scientific studies”. XTC is therapeutically used for emotional illnesses, psilocybine and LSD with treating life quality in terminal illnesses, ketamine is effective with depression and ibogaine with addictions. These positive effects have been known to scientists for decades, yet only recently has public research slowly been allowed again. Both Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and The OPEN Foundation are brought forth in the article as promoting these studies.

The first part of the article (in Dutch) can be read here.

Nature brings psychedelics to the blogosphere

December 6, 2021 / Articles, Other, Publications, Research / By

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In the context of the recent paper The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders scientific journal Nature has approached four well-known neuroscience bloggers to each blog about a different aspect of the medical applications of psychedelic drugs.

Neuroskeptic describes how LSD, Psilocybin and Mescaline affect the serotonergic system and considers a psychedelic treatment for depression.

The Neurocritic wonders whether Ketamine might be able to treat this same disorder.

Vaughan Bell over at Mind Hacks covers the therapeutic potential of DMT.

Moheb Costandi from Neurophilosophy investigates the “secret history of psychedelic psychiatry.” On top of that he wrote an overview discussing all four posts for British newspaper The Guardian.

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