
Dr Rayyan Zafar
@rayyanzafar6
Neuropsychopharmacologist @ImperialCollege Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology & Psychedelic Research 🧠🍄💊🔬 @Imperial_PRG @drug_science
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Big up Rebecca harding amd Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social! Dissociable effects of psilocybin and escitalopram for depression on processing of musical surprises pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40281226/



It was great to present on the launch of Psychedelic Industry UK at Breaking Convention I discussed the values, mission and objectives of the organisation and opened up a survey to gain feedback from the community who attended on our goals. We will be reporting back on these soon!



From ancient brews to modern psychedelics: David Nutt and Darren Le Baron will spend an evening discussing how humans have long sought altered states - and what this tells us about our brains, cultures, & communities. 📆 10/6 🎟️ dandelion.events/e/w5r3o The Psychedelic Society

This is a big one. Classic work by Matt Wall (@mattwall.bsky.social) and co! Reduced Brain Responsiveness to Emotional Stimuli With Escitalopram But Not Psilocybin Therapy for Depression pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40329640/

Escitalopram (Lexapro) blunting brain responsiveness to all categories of emotional face expression. Nicholas Fabiano, MD , one for you?




CPCR postdoc Sean Goldy (Sean Goldy) spoke at Centre for Psychedelic Research and Psychology at Edinburgh, presenting his program of research on psychedelics’ acute subjective effects (e.g., the emotion awe), how session facilitators might shape these, and an upcoming trial.








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
