Latest psychedelic research

Psychedelic Psychiatry’s Brave New World

After a legally mandated, decades-long global arrest of research on psychedelic drugs, investigation of psychedelics in the context of psychiatric disorders is yielding exciting results.

Ketamine Plus Motivational Enhancement Therapy: Leveraging a Rapid Effect to Promote Enduring Change

After a legally mandated, decades-long global arrest of research on psychedelic drugs, investigation of psychedelics in the context of psychiatric disorders is yielding exciting results.

REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics

This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis.

Nourishing the Spirit: Exploratory Research on Ayahuasca Experiences along the Continuum of Recovery from Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are serious health conditions that are among the most difficult to treat. Innovative treatments are needed and modalities from across cultures must be considered.

The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs

Entropy is applied here in the context of states of consciousness and their associated neurodynamics, with a particular focus on the psychedelic state.

Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin

Psychedelic drugs have a long history of use in healing ceremonies, but despite renewed interest in their therapeutic potential, we continue to know very little about how they work in the brain.