Coming Out in Solidarity — Psymposia

von pgd | Jun 21, 2016 | International

Psychedelic users and sexual minorities are both involved in the same struggle. We both represent a valid threat to the same obsolete control mechanisms. We are on the same team. Quelle: Coming Out in Solidarity — Psymposia

LSD’s Long, Strange Trip – Video – NYTimes.com

von pgd | Jun 13, 2016 | International

In the 1960s, mind-altering drugs like LSD helped fuel the counterculture. Today, psychedelics are turning on a new generation – of scientists. Quelle: LSD’s Long, Strange Trip – Video – NYTimes.com

How to Pick Music for People on LSD, From a Scientist Whose Job That Is | Motherboard

von pgd | Mai 18, 2016 | International

Neuroscience PhD student Mendel Kaelen researches the relationship between psychedelics and music. He explains how he picks the songs. Quelle: How to Pick Music for People on LSD, From a Scientist Whose Job That Is | Motherboard

Magic mushrooms lift severe depression in clinical trial | Science | The Guardian

von pgd | Mai 17, 2016 | Forschung, International

Magic mushrooms have lifted severe depression in a dozen volunteers in a clinical trial, raising scientists’ hopes that the psychedelic experiences beloved of the Aztecs and the hippy counter-culture of the 1970s could one day become mainstream medicine. Quelle: Magic...

PLOS ONE: Effects of MDMA Injections on the Behavior of Socially-Housed Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

von pgd | Mai 14, 2016 | Forschung, International

3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methyl amphetamine (MDMA) is one of the few known molecules to increase human and rodent prosocial behaviors. However, this effect has never been assessed on the social behavior of non-human primates. In our study, we subcutaneously injected three...

This Is What It Feels Like to Treat Depression with Magic Mushrooms | VICE | United States

von pgd | Mai 12, 2016 | International

We spoke to a woman who’s been trialling a psilocybin micro-dose treatment for a month, and the doctor who devised the method. Quelle: This Is What It Feels Like to Treat Depression with Magic Mushrooms | VICE | United States