Here are just some of the studies being conducted in our department. Full list can be found at pimaastricht.com/join-our-study

Check out this new PhD position in our group! academictransfer.com/en/jobs/351244…

📢 Volunteers wanted! Do you live in Maastricht? We are studying how water exposure affects psychological and physiological responses. ✔️ 2 lab visits 📍 Healthy volunteers (16+) needed. 💰 49 euros or 6.5 SONA credits. Info 👉 [email protected]

3-Methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) is a synthetic cathinone that has been scheduled in many jurisdictions. Yet, our most recent publication shows it has analgesic properties, even at low doses, that might be worthwhile to investigate in clinical populations! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🧠💞 Couples Wanted for LSD Study Maastricht University is recruiting romantic couples (18–35) for a study on how LSD affects brain activity and social behavior. ✅ Must have prior psychedelic experience ✅ 5 lab visits ✅ Compensation provided Details: shorturl.at/GFxpk

🧘‍♂️ Participants Needed! Breathwork & Social Anxiety Study We are recruiting socially anxious individuals for a study on online breathwork-assisted therapy with two in-person ses ✅ Ages 18–65 ✅ 2 lab visits ✅ Compensation provided Learn more: 🔗 shorturl.at/lWoWm

🎉 Grant awarded to Conny Quaedflieg! “Subliminal Backdoors” explores an alternative approach to reduce fear without conscious re-exposure. By targeting fear memories during a memory disruption phase, this NWO-funded study may reshape anxiety treatment. shorturl.at/reoPb

📚 As part of Maastricht University's April protest against education cuts, our colleague Peter van Ruitenbeek gave two inspiring lectures to secondary and primary school students. His goal? To show what universities do — and why they matter. 🔗 maastrichtuniversity.nl/recap-maastric…

We developed a Peak Experience Scale (PES) to guide the dosing of 5-MeO-DMT. A paper aimed to compare the PES with a range of established questionnaires designed to evaluate the psychedelic experience was just released: frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

New in Nature Medicine: ReSPCT "An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts. "The ReSPCT guidelines and accompanying explanatory document provide a new standard for

On Monday, June 23, at 13.00 Pablo Mallaroni will defend his PhD thesis titled "Decomposing the Psychedelic State: Insights from the brain, behaviour, and context". You can follow his defence live via youtube.com/@UMphddefense by tuning in at that day and time. We will post a reminder!

🚨 Conference time! 💊 Kim Kuypers is at BAP2025 in Manchester 👉 bap.org.uk/BAP2025 🧠 Jan Ramaekers & Pablo Mallaroni are off to Crete for ASSC, July 6–9 👉 assc2025.gr 🎶 Jan then heads to the Serotonin Symphony in Vienna, July 7–11 👉 serotoninclub.org/2025-meeting