Novel and emerging treatments for major depression

S Marwaha, E Palmer, T Suppes, E Cons, AH Young… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Depression is common, costly, debilitating, and associated with increased risk of suicide. It is
one of the leading global public health problems. Although existing available …

Psychedelics, mystical experience, and therapeutic efficacy: A systematic review

K Ko, G Knight, JJ Rucker, AJ Cleare - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The mystical experience is a potential psychological mechanism to influence outcome in
psychedelic therapy. It includes features such as oceanic boundlessness, ego dissolution …

Human brain effects of DMT assessed via EEG-fMRI

C Timmermann, L Roseman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Psychedelics have attracted medical interest, but their effects on human brain function are
incompletely understood. In a comprehensive, within-subjects, placebo-controlled design …

Adverse effects of psychedelics: From anecdotes and misinformation to systematic science

AK Schlag, J Aday, I Salam… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Despite an increasing body of research highlighting their efficacy to treat a
broad range of medical conditions, psychedelic drugs remain a controversial issue among …

Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders

FX Vollenweider, KH Preller - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Renewed interest in the use of psychedelics in the treatment of psychiatric disorders
warrants a better understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the effects of …

Blinding and expectancy confounds in psychedelic randomized controlled trials

SD Muthukumaraswamy, A Forsyth… - Expert review of clinical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: There is increasing interest in the potential for psychedelic drugs such as
psilocybin, LSD and ketamine to treat several mental health disorders, with a growing …

Therapeutic effects of classic serotonergic psychedelics: A systematic review of modern‐era clinical studies

KAA Andersen, R Carhart‐Harris… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To conduct a systematic review of modern‐era (post‐millennium) clinical studies
assessing the therapeutic effects of serotonergic psychedelics drugs for mental health …

A non-hallucinogenic LSD analog with therapeutic potential for mood disorders

V Lewis, EM Bonniwell, JK Lanham, A Ghaffari… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Hallucinations limit widespread therapeutic use of psychedelics as rapidly acting
antidepressants. Here we profiled the non-hallucinogenic lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) …

Classic psychedelics: An integrative review of epidemiology, therapeutics, mystical experience, and brain network function

MW Johnson, PS Hendricks, FS Barrett… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrative review and offer novel insights
regarding human research with classic psychedelics (classic hallucinogens), which are …

Psychological flexibility mediates the relations between acute psychedelic effects and subjective decreases in depression and anxiety

AK Davis, FS Barrett, RR Griffiths - Journal of contextual behavioral science, 2020 - Elsevier
Prior research has shown that acute subjective psychedelic effects are associated with both
spontaneous and intended changes in depression and anxiety. Psychedelics are also …