by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 16, 2022 | LSD, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Research
Results revealed increased PHC-visual cortex (VC) functional connectivity and PHC to VC information flow in the interaction between music and LSD. This latter result correlated positively with ratings of enhanced eyes-closed visual imagery, including imagery of an...
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 | Anxiety, Ayahuasca, Microdosing, NN-Dimethyltryptamine, OCD, Pain, Psilocybin Magic Mushroom, Psychedelic Medicine
THE EXAMINATION ROOMS IN THE BLUESTON CENTER FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH at the New York University College of Dentistry are exactly what you might expect of a facility that conducts trials of dental and medical therapies. There are reclining exam chairs, linoleum floors,...
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 11, 2022 | Psychedelic Medicine
Patients showed a significant pessimism bias at baseline [t(14) = -3.260, p = 0.006; 95% CI (-0.16, -0.03), g = 1.1] which was related to the severity of their depressive symptoms (rs = -0.55, p = 0.017). One week after psilocybin treatment, this bias was...
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,...