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Specially trained psychiatrists and psychologists are now administering hallucinogens and other potent psychotropic agents (psilocybin, ketamine, ecstasy) as mental health remedies. Administering limited doses (one to three) of psychedelics interspersed with multiple sessions of talk therapy over many weeks has become the modern equivalent of shama
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Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Adolescents with depression were at incr risk of subsequent outcomes bw ages of 16 and 21 (Fergusson 2002)
The slow death of the concept of schizophrenia and the painful birth of the psychosis spectrum | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
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