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Coming Out in Solidarity — Psymposia
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.
LSD’s Long, Strange Trip – Video – NYTimes.com
In the 1960s, mind-altering drugs like LSD helped fuel the counterculture. Today, psychedelics are turning on a new generation – of scientists.
How to Pick Music for People on LSD, From a Scientist Whose Job That Is | Motherboard
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
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 mushrooms lift severe depression in clinical trial | Science | The Guardian
PLOS ONE: Effects of MDMA Injections on the Behavior of Socially-Housed Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
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 different doses of MDMA (1.0, 1.5 or 2.0mg/kg) to a group of three, socially housed, young male long-tailed macaques. More than 200 hours of behavioral data were recorded, during 68 behavioral sessions, by an automatic color-based video device that tracked the 3D positions of each animal and of a toy. This data was then categorized into 5 exclusive behaviors (resting, locomotion, foraging, social contact and object play). In addition, received and given social grooming was manually scored. Results show several significant dose-dependent behavioral effects. At 1.5mg/kg only, MDMA induces a significant increase in social grooming behavior, thus confirming the prosocial effect of MDMA in macaques. Additionally, at 1.5 and 2.0 mg/kg MDMA injection substantially decreases foraging behavior, which is consistent with the known anorexigenic effect of this compound. Furthermore, at 2.0 mg/kg MDMA injection induces an increase in locomotor behavior, which is also in accordance with its known stimulant property. Interestingly, MDMA injected at 1.0mg/kg increases the rate of object play, which might be interpreted as a decrease of the inhibition to manipulate a unique object in presence of others, or, as an increase of the intrinsic motivation to manipulate this object. Together, our results support the effectiveness of MDMA to study the complex neurobiology of primates’ social behaviors.
This Is What It Feels Like to Treat Depression with Magic Mushrooms | VICE | United States
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
Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research | CIIS
The Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate serves a growing need for the training of skilled therapist researchers who will ideally seek advanced training for future FDA-approved psychedelic-assisted and entactogen-assisted psychotherapy research.
Quelle: Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research | CIIS
Psychedelics and Systems Change | Charles Eisenstein
Many arguments for the legalization of cannabis and psychedelics draw on their relative harmlessness. […] In fact, the prohibitionists are correct. The legalization of cannabis, LSD, MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and the other psychedelics would indeed mean the end of society as we know it. The threat that conservative political forces have identified is real.
Quelle: Psychedelics and Systems Change | Charles Eisenstein
TEDMED – Talk Details – The science of psilocybin and its use to relieve suffering
Leading psychopharmacologist Roland Griffiths discloses the ways that psychedelic drugs can be used to create spiritually meaningful, personally transformative experiences for all patients, especially the terminally ill.
Quelle: TEDMED – Talk Details – The science of psilocybin and its use to relieve suffering
In Brazil, Some Inmates Get Therapy With Hallucinogenic Tea
The provision of ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew used in the Amazon basin for centuries, to inmates on short furloughs reflects a quest to ease pressure on Brazil’s prison system.
Quelle: In Brazil, Some Inmates Get Therapy With Hallucinogenic Tea
Bicycle Day: LSD users share their experiences of a drug that can have life-changing effects
„My name is Charlie and I take drugs. Not many, and not often, but I don’t feel ashamed to admit that I do: quite the opposite in fact. You see today is the anniversary of the very first deliberate LSD trip, taken by Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann in 1943, and, in honour of this, it is also Psychedelic Pride.“
Quelle: Bicycle Day: LSD users share their experiences of a drug that can have life-changing effects
LSD’s impact on the brain revealed in groundbreaking images | Science | The Guardian
First modern scans of people high on psychedelic drug has given researchers unprecedented insight into neural basis for its effects: „We are finally unveiling the brain mechanisms underlying the potential of LSD, not only to heal, but also to deepen our understanding of consciousness itself.“
Quelle: LSD’s impact on the brain revealed in groundbreaking images | Science | The Guardian