Sentences with phrase «of psychedelic drugs»

I am interested in formalizing and seeking recognition for the religious use of psychedelic drugs in the US via an institution similar but not identical to the Santo Daime Church.

The 21 - patient study, sponsored by the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), launched in 2004 as the first U.S. clinical trial of a psychedelic drug in 35 years.

After secretly consuming a miniscule amount of the psychedelic drug LSD once every third day for a month, she reports that the tiny doses «jump - started [her] out of a pretty significant depression.»

Researchers looking at the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs found increased neural signals in the brain scans of people given them.

«They are the most rigorous double - blind placebo - controlled trials of a psychedelic drug in the past 50 years,» writes David Nutt, a pharmacologist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the work, in an editorial accompanying the papers.

A «psychedelics sanctuary» is set to open in New York this month, the first US therapeutic facility for users of psychedelic drugs.

But research into the potential benefits of psychedelic drugs ground to a halt in the early 1970s, after the federal government criminalized LSD and psilocybin — and after the drugs were eagerly adopted by college students and the hippie counterculture.

Dr. Carhart - Harris added: «Learning about the mechanisms that underlie what happens under the influence of psychedelic drugs can also help to understand their possible uses.

New studies — prompted by a renewed interest in potential applications of psychedelic drugs for understanding the brain or even treating some psychiatric diseases — suggest that far - reaching changes in brain connectivity contribute to the altered states of consciousness and other effects of an acid trip.

Dr. John Krystal, chair of Yale University's department of psychiatry, said the study authors «are very sophisticated in their understanding of psychedelic drugs.»

While research on the benefits of psychedelic drugs took place in the 1950 to the 1970s, primarily to treat mental illness, it was stopped due to the reclassification of the drugs to a controlled substance in the mid-1970s.

Similar default mode network changes were identified in a study of 30 volunteers who took an intravenous dose of another psychedelic drug: psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in hallucinogenic, or «magic,» mushrooms.

For their part, Carhart - Harris and his team are keen to study other types of psychedelic drugs, including dimethyltryptamine (DMT), sometimes found in a traditional South American brew called ayahuasca.

In her new memoir, Ayelet Waldman says taking tiny amounts of the psychedelic drug saved her life.

One of Pinchbeck's heroes, Terence McKenna, also champions the idea of psychedelic drugs as one way to get people to expand their consciousness in a short period of time.

Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.

It seemed the volunteers had a much larger range of potential brain states that were available to them, which may be the biophysical counterpart of «mind expansion» reported by users of psychedelic drugs.

For example, many concert posters from the «60's have abstracted letters that are meant to be difficult to read unless under the influence of psychedelic drugs.

Janet Lai Chang is one of many people experimenting with taking small amounts of psychedelic drugs to improve her mood and performance.

These studies are part of an increasing interest within psychiatry toexplore the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic drugs, particularly in the treatment of anxiety disorders, where they have consistently been demonstrated to be effective at loosening the ego and improving the depth and effectiveness of psychotherapy (Sessa 2007).

Without Heard, some of the major spiritual developments of 20th - century America - the introduction of Eastern mysticism, the development of the human potential movement and the spiritual use of psychedelic drugs - might never have happened.

Your leader and cover story supported medical use of psychedelic drugs (25 November, p 28).

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