Sentences with phrase «psychedelic research»

The history of psychedelic research includes many serious scientists but also many inflated claims about the benefits of the substances.

The next year, Doblin launched MAPS to revive psychedelic research, a movement that's now gaining steam.

«We suspect that physiologically, this is what happened in the OCD study — that psilocybin downregulates the activity of these receptors,» says Franz X. Vollenweider, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, who conducted many of the imaging studies and has done psychedelic research for more than a decade.

He squeezes in psychedelic research on weekends because his workdays are filled overseeing a large clinical program that handles 400 to 500 patients a year and supervising the child psychiatry fellows, residents, interns, psychology postdocs, and social workers in training who rotate through his department at UCLA.

By the early 1980s, the DMT theory of psychosis was largely abandoned when psychedelic research involving humans became too controversial.

Ram Dass» interests include the support of psychedelic research, international development, environmental awareness and political action.

At a handful of sites across the country, after a four - decade hiatus, psychedelic research is undergoing a quiet renaissance, thanks to scientists like Charles Grob who are revisiting the powerful mind - altering drugs of the 1960s in hopes of making them part of our therapeutic arsenal.

He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India.