by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 16, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Research
Volunteers gave significantly higher ratings for the CIS (p = 0.018), but not the MIT (p = 0.11), after LSD than placebo. The magnitude of suggestibility enhancement under LSD was positively correlated with trait conscientiousness measured at baseline (p = 0.0005)....
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 16, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Research
LSD reduced associative, but concurrently increased sensory-somatomotor brain-wide and thalamic connectivity. Ketanserin fully blocked the subjective and neural LSD effects. Whole-brain spatial patterns of LSD effects matched 5-HT2A receptor cortical gene expression...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 12, 2022 | Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Pain, Kambo, LSD, MDMA Sassafras Molly, Microdosing, NN-Dimethyltryptamine, OCD, Psilocybin Magic Mushroom, Psychedelic Medicine
COULD AN OVERACTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM make you depressed? In the late 1990s, psychiatrist Andrew Miller and his colleagues began to notice that patients with cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and Crohn’s disease—all conditions that cause higher than normal levels of...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 12, 2022 | Ayahuasca, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, DMT, Iboga, Kambo, LSD, MDMA Sassafras Molly, NN-Dimethyltryptamine, OCD, Psychedelic Medicine, PTSD
During his decades as Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chief of Psychiatry, Jerry Rosenbaum observed that patients suffering from a range of mental illnesses would sometimes get stuck in a state of rumination, or unceasing cycles of unpleasant, self-deprecating...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 5, 2022 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Ayahuasca, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, Cannabis Marijuana, CBC, Chronic Pain, Cluster Headaches, Depression, DMT, Iboga, Kambo, LSD, MDMA Sassafras Molly, Microdosing, Neuropathy, NN-Dimethyltryptamine, OCD, Pain, Parkinson's Disease, Psilocybin Magic Mushroom, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Research, Psychotropics, PTSD, San Pedro Mescaline
Max Weber – The disenchantment of modern life. He believed that since the Enlightenment, science and reason had eroded the sway of religion, spirituality, superstition and magic such that transcendent values had become increasingly unavailable to many,...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 21, 2022 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Ayahuasca, Cluster Headaches, Depression, DMT, Iboga, Kambo, LSD, MDMA Sassafras Molly, Microdosing, NN-Dimethyltryptamine, OCD, Pain, Psilocybin Magic Mushroom, Psychedelic Medicine, PTSD
Based on the book about psychedelic therapy, a new Netflix docu-series prompted another writer to reach out to Pollan — and dig into his own experiences.In late 2012, the best-selling author and journalist Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) was at a dinner...
