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Simon A Beck

2 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2025-2026

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Eligibility for psychedelic therapy: Clinical trial medical exclusion criteria and their implications for hospital practice.

General Hospital Psychiatry 2026 Martin L Williams, Karen Hitchcock, Angus H Miller et al.

Clinical research in psychedelic-assisted therapies is flourishing following the resumption of human trials exploring classic psychedelics and their therapeutic application to a range of mental health conditions. Translation from research to the clinic is underway in Australia and appears imminent in several other countries. Classic psychedelics function primarily as agonists of a subgroup of...

"Wood-lover paralysis": Describing a toxidrome with symptoms of weakness caused by some lignicolous "wood-loving" Psilocybe mushrooms.

Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology June 7, 2025 Simon A Beck, Caine Barlow, Liam Engel et al. 4 citations

Psilocybin-containing mushrooms have long been used for their psychoactive effects, but emerging evidence suggests that certain lignicolous ("wood-loving") species may also induce a distinct toxidrome known as "wood-lover paralysis" (WLP). WLP is characterised by transient weakness following mushroom ingestion, but its aetiology and prevalence remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present...