Psychedelics

DE Nichols, EL Barker - Pharmacological reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Psychedelics (serotonergic hallucinogens) are powerful psychoactive substances that alter
perception and mood and affect numerous cognitive processes. They are generally …

Serotonin and brain function: a tale of two receptors

RL Carhart-Harris, DJ Nutt - Journal of psychopharmacology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous attempts to identify a unified theory of brain serotonin function have largely failed to
achieve consensus. In this present synthesis, we integrate previous perspectives with new …

Rapid and sustained symptom reduction following psilocybin treatment for anxiety and depression in patients with life-threatening cancer: a randomized controlled trial

S Ross, A Bossis, J Guss… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Clinically significant anxiety and depression are common in patients with
cancer, and are associated with poor psychiatric and medical outcomes. Historical and …

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

RL Carhart-Harris, R Leech, PJ Hellyer… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Entropy is a dimensionless quantity that is used for measuring uncertainty about the state of
a system but it can also imply physical qualities, where high entropy is synonymous with …

Neural mechanisms of the cognitive model of depression

SG Disner, CG Beevers, EAP Haigh… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
In the 40 years since Aaron Beck first proposed his cognitive model of depression, the
elements of this model—biased attention, biased processing, biased thoughts and …

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 …

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

RL Carhart-Harris, D Erritzoe… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; pharmacology and function

NM Barnes, GP Ahern, C Becamel, J Bockaert… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
HT receptors expressed throughout the human body are targets for established therapeutics
and various drugs in development. Their diversity of structure and function reflects the …

The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders

FX Vollenweider, M Kometer - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
After a pause of nearly 40 years in research into the effects of psychedelic drugs, recent
advances in our understanding of the neurobiology of psychedelics, such as lysergic acid …

The neurobiology of depression and antidepressant action

P Willner, J Scheel-Krüger, C Belzung - Neuroscience & biobehavioral …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive overview of the neurobiology of unipolar major depression
and antidepressant drug action, integrating data from affective neuroscience, neuro-and …