Clinical Trials

yourbrainscience

May 8, 20235 min read

Journal Club: Trial of Ketamine Masked by Surgical Anesthesia in Depressed Patients

Over the weekend, a new preprint was released from Stanford University focused on better understanding potential drug placebo effects in...

Sasha Sisko

Apr 21, 202310 min read

The Doblin Effect

Co-written by Alaina M. Jaster & Sasha Sisko On our final episode of the season we were joined by Sasha Sisko, an independent journalist,...

yourbrainscience

Mar 29, 20236 min read

Journal Club: At Home LSD Microdosing

An exciting article, "Acute mood-elevating properties of microdosed LSD in healthy volunteers: a home-administered randomised controlled...

yourbrainscience

Mar 19, 20232 min read

Self-concept and Ego

Alaina sat down with Dr. Neşe Devenot, a psychedelics and bio ethics researcher to talk about their work with understanding different...

yourbrainscience

Feb 28, 20232 min read

Common Factors of Psychotherapy

This week's episode was with Dr. Natalie Gukasyan psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins at the Center of Psychedelic and Consciousness Research....

yourbrainscience

Dec 15, 20221 min read

Microdosing, Myth or Magic?

Here are some of the studies we mentioned in Episode 13! Psilocybin microdosing does not affect emotion-related symptoms and processing:...

yourbrainscience

Nov 19, 20223 min read

COMPASS Pathways Phase 2 Psilocybin Study

We shared a lot of our thoughts about the recent published study on psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression in Episode 9. Here we...

yourbrainscience

Aug 3, 20224 min read

Journal Club: "Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study"

Recently there has been quite a bit of discourse on the efficacy and utility of microdosing. Microdosing typically refers to a paradigm...