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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

By Neuroscience News — 2022

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute have shown how drug-induced changes in subjective awareness are anatomically rooted in specific neurotransmitter receptor systems.

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High on Mount Sinai?

Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.

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Reuters Staff
2008
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Study Finds Ketamine Can Help Patients Manage Depression and PTSD

Through this treatment plan, the patient was able to “reconceptualize her trauma” and “was able to move through difficult memories and emotions rather than letting them consume her,” explained U of O associate professor, Monnica Williams.

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Hannah Sabourin
2021
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A Psychotherapeutic View on the Therapeutic Effects of Ritual Ayahuasca Use in the Treatment of Addiction

In an appropriate context, ayahuasca can be a valuable therapeutic tool and can act as a catalyst that can render psychotherapeutic processes more effective in less time, and sometimes allow for critical interventions when several other therapeutic strategies have been unsuccessful.

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Anja Loizaga-Velder
2013
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Introducing Ayahuasca

Amazonian healing traditions collide with Western medical sensibilities.

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Zoe Jahn, Monnica T. Williams
2019
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Ayahuasca Produces Long-Lasting Changes in the Brain

The powerful hallucinogenic brew provokes long-lasting changes in two important brain networks.

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Tibi Puiu
2020
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Ayahuasca Could Do Something Amazing to Your Brain, Study Shows

Science is finally catching up with the potential powers of this psychedelic drink.

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Caroline Delbert
2020
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Rapid Antidepressant Effects of the Psychedelic Ayahuasca Linked to Changes in Inflammatory Biomarkers

The antidepressant effects of the psychedelic brew known as ayahuasca appear to be related to anti-inflammatory activity, according to new research from scientists in Brazil.

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Eric W. Dolan
2021
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The Grandmother Plant—and What Turned on Consciousness

Here, we asked Graham Hancock about plant medicine, the purpose and meaning of hallucinogenic experiences, and what bigger opportunities he sees for humanity in all of this.

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Graham Hancock
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