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Moved 12 Jan 2013 | 03:07 am
I’ve moved most of my activity to Google+ where, among other things, I have set up a Psychedelic Research Community. Come join us there! – M@
Can Psychedelics Improve Personality? 30 Sep 2011 | 02:15 am
Katherine MacClean, Matthew Johnson, and Roland Griffiths at Johns Hopkins have published their study of changes in personality after psilocybin-occasioned mystical experience. (Full disclosure: they’...
2010: the year in review 19 Dec 2010 | 02:53 pm
Faithful readers will notice that we had a long hiatus here as I completed my dissertation and then recovered from the resulting snake-fight injuries. Meanwhile, the year 2010 saw a number of landmark...
Paper on MDA in PLoS One 4 Dec 2010 | 01:58 pm
Please allow me to indulge in a little self-promotion: My colleagues and I have a new paper out on the effects of MDA in healthy volunteers, published in the open access online journal PLoS One. This ...
Sasha Shulgin 18 Nov 2010 | 07:07 pm
Alexander Shulgin, the one-of-a-kind chemist who crossed a diamond with a pearl, is in the hospital after a stroke. Friends are suggesting that donations can be made via the second link on this erow...
Outer space/Inner space: July 16th in History 17 Jul 2009 | 04:17 am
On July 16th 1969, Apollo 11 set off for the Moon. On July 16th 1930, thirty-nine years earlier, humanity first encountered an MDMA-like drug as Gordon Alles began his self-experiments with MDA. Even ...
Increased oxytocin concentrations and prosocial feelings in humans after ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) administration. 4 Jul 2009 | 05:28 pm
Glenn Dumont and colleagues have an excellent new paper in social neuroscience showing that 100 mg MDMA increases oxytocin and prosocial feelings in people a controlled laboratory setting. It’s about ...
The passing of Abraham Hoffer 1 Jun 2009 | 06:58 pm
My pace of posting has slowed as I am deep in dissertation writing. So I have been remiss in failing to celebrate several good new articles, including a study of MDMA-cannabis interactions from Dumon...
Johansen and Krebs paper on ‘How could MDMA (ecstasy) help anxiety disorders?’ 11 Mar 2009 | 03:07 am
Pål Johansen and Teri Krebs have published a short Perspective paper hypothesizing three potential mechanisms by which MDMA might be helpful in anxiety disorders. Johansen PØ and Krebs TS. How could M...
