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How to use the word psychedelic in a Sentence?

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Our hope is that we can use this information to ultimately make drugs that mimic the benefits of psychedelic drugs without the psychedelic experience, what if we could give people who are depressed or suffer from PTSD or anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder a medication, and they could wake up the next day and be fine without any side effects ? That would be transformative.

Brian Roth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our hypothesis is that in a diseased state, your brain is going to have higher energy hills and lower energy valleys. More so than a placebo, different parts of their brain can’t talk to each other, that’s why someone stuck in a negative pattern of thought could be having a hard time — in spite of new evidence they’re not able to see that there are reasons to be happy. Psychedelic therapy could flatten out that energy landscape again and allow more information to come in. It could allow depressed or anxious people to update their models of the world.

Parker Singleton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just remember looking at the album covers and reading them, and recognizing they were black women, and thinking they looked like people I knew, even though they were psychedelic.

Elissa Blount Moorhead.For Moorhead

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Psychedelic drugs have potent psychological effects and are only given in our research when appropriate safeguards are in place, i wouldn't want members of the public thinking they can treat their own depressions by picking their own magic mushrooms. That kind of approach could be risky.

Robin Carhart-Harris

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For the first time, we can really see what's happening in the brain during the psychedelic state, and can better understand why LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) had such a profound impact on self-awareness, this could have great implications for psychiatry.

David Nutt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It indicates that psychedelic compounds were present back in the Cretaceous, what effect it had on animals is difficult to tell, but my feeling is dinosaurs definitely fed on this grass.

George Poinar Jr.

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We're beginning to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs.

Robin Carhart-Harris

Found on CNN
9 years ago

At a time when drug policy is being reevaluated, when marijuana looks like it's on the road toward legalization, when psychedelic medicine is moving forward through the FDA and we can envision a time when psychedelics are available as prescription medicines, how ayahuasca should be handled in a regulatory context is really up in the air.

Rick Doblin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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