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David B Newman

2 papers in the library · 118 citations · publishing 1996-2026

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Age as a Moderator of Psychoactive-Assisted Psychotherapies Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

July 27, 2026 Asher Wenig, David B Newman

This project will use a PRISMA-guided systematic review and meta-analysis to examine whether age moderates anxiety and depression outcomes following psychoactive-assisted treatments. In this review, psychoactive-assisted treatments are defined as clinically structured treatments involving classic serotonergic psychedelics, MDMA, ketamine, or esketamine. The term is intentionally broader than...

Emergence and Strange Attractors

Philosophy of Science June 1, 1996 David B Newman 118 citations

Recent work in the Philosophy of Mind has suggested that alternatives to reduction are required in order to explain the relationship between psychology and biology or physics. Emergence has been proposed as one such alternative. In this paper, I propose a precise definition of emergence, and I argue that chaotic systems provide concrete examples of properties that meet this definition. In...