Recruiting healthy participants for London-based psilocybin study! If you have 3-5 lifetime psychedelic experiences, minimal meditation experience, and can commit to a 21-day prep course with visits to UCL over a 4-week period, we want to hear from you! psychedelicunit.com/dipp-prescreen…

Humans excel in decoding subtle social cues, but how about large language models? Our latest Turku PET Centre preprint shows that GPT-4V shines in high-level social vision - huge potential for e.g. patient monitoring, surveillance and marketing: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New collab. between Drug Science and UCL will see the pair aim to "address the specific concerns" raised by FDA in its recent decision on Lykos' MDMA-assisted therapy NDA, most notably those related to the 'assisted psychotherapy' element. drugscience.org.uk/uclmdma

This is a very nice pre-print. Inching closer to actual evidence for anatomical neuroplasticity in living human brain. Many seem unaware we don't yet have such evidence researchsquare.com/article/rs-424…

🚨New Paper🚨 We explored pharmacological and extra-pharmacological predictors of the #psychedelic #LSD experience!Dose is key! Personality traits, mood, and pre-drug states are also major influencers! Sex and body weight? Not so much! Patrick Vizeli nature.com/articles/s4139…

In the first episode, Simon Ruffell and David Luke discuss the more extreme end of psychedelia, how they can alter our understanding of reality and connection to nature, and the necessity of considering other frameworks of knowledge 👉open.spotify.com/episode/66zzxM…

🚨WE'RE RECRUITING!🚨 We are researching the potential of the psychedelic drug DMT to help reduce alcohol intake. Who we're looking for: - Age: 21-65 - Heavy drinkers - London-based 👉bit.ly/unity-ucl #Alcohol #Psychedelic #Science #UCL #London #Clinicaltrial

Autonomic nervous system activity correlates with peak experiences induced by DMT and predicts increases in well-being dlvr.it/TDTymL

The age of spiritual machines: Language quietus induces synthetic altered states of consciousness in AI Shifting CLIP/FLAVA's attention away from language simulates ego-loss & unitive & minimal phenomenal states via semantic category blurring 🍄🧘 arxiv.org/abs/2410.00257

Ever wondered what happens in the brain when someone takes the world’s most powerful psychedelic drug?🧐Me too! So we went and found out. Our new preprint is now live where you can read all about it: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨 Very pleased to present our new commentary piece at Neuroscience Insights: "Neuroimaging and the Investigation of Drug-Drug Interactions Involving Psychedelics" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

🙌🧐 The online MSc - Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture, is now ready for a January intake. With the amazing teachers: Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Celia Morgan, Andy Letcher, Christine Hauskeller, myself - and a lot of guest lecturers (🙏) University of Exeter exeter.ac.uk/study/online/c…

How can 2C-B 💊contribute to psychedelic neuroscience, an otherwise "forgotten" psychedelic? We went off with Parker Singleton ,Natasha L Mason / nlmason.bsky.social , Ted Satterthwaite and Jan to take an initial look at this using 7T resting state fMRI. 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Here's a preliminary release of our calculator to explore sample size and scan time to maximize individual-level prediction accuracy: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calculato… Let us know if anything is unclear or if there's bugs. Your feedback is welcome. If you find this calculator helpful for

📢 Exciting opportunity: UCL CPU is hiring a postdoc for a new clinical trial exploring nitrous oxide therapy for PTSD! Work alongside Sunjeev Kamboj in a the best lab ever... Please share! jobs.ac.uk/job/DKI751/res…

"He is haunted by the words of a doctor who told him that he’d “chosen the one drug that completely ruins your body”. “I never knew that about ketamine,” he says." theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

exeter.ac.uk/study/online/c… The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, history,

"In the short-term, dramatically destabilizing treatments for depression will often result in some positive anecdotal reports. This is true for ketamine, as it was true for Freud and cocaine"... very thought-provoking counterpunch.org/2025/01/03/psy…

New preprint!🧘‍♀️🍄 “Practitioner perspectives on meditation-based preparation for psychedelic experiences.” osf.io/preprints/psya… Joanna Kuc Amelia Sellers Chris Timmermann Sunjeev Kamboj Matthew D. Sacchet

Was discussing ketamine on ⁦BBC Radio 5 Live⁩ at 10.40am today & noted early indications from the annual English Festival Study that young adult prevalence *might* be peaking, with 1 in 3 taking it at UK festivals. ⁦The Loop⁩ ⁦University of Liverpool⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…