January 13, 2026
David Rosen, Frederick S. Barrett, Albert Garcia‐romeu et al.
preprint
Personally meaningful music can evoke vivid emotions and autobiographical memories, reconnecting listeners with their personal past. Whether the autobiographical salience of music, as distinct from familiarity, modulates its effects on an individual’s state of consciousness has not been systematically tested. We compared autobiographically salient (AS) music with a standardized therapeutic...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 15, 2025
Trey Brasher, David Rosen, Marcello Spinella
1 citation
Recent clinical trials on classic psychedelics for depression and anxiety have raised questions about their potential to treat other psychiatric conditions. Evidence from pre-clinical and clinical research suggests psychedelics may help with substance use disorders, with ongoing registered trials. Behavioral addictions, sharing features with substance addictions, may also respond to psychedelic...
Neuropsychologia
April 15, 2024
David Rosen, Yongtaek Oh, Christine Chesebrough et al.
Using a creative production task, jazz improvisation, we tested alternative hypotheses about the flow experience: (A) that it is a state of domain-specific processing optimized by experience and characterized by minimal interference from task-negative default-mode network (DMN) activity versus (B) that it recruits domain-general task-positive DMN activity supervised by the fronto-parietal...
International Journal of Wellbeing
February 28, 2023
Trey Brasher, David Rosen, Marcello Spinella
9 citations
Classical psychedelics appear efficacious in improving psychological well-being in randomized clinical trials, but their effects in the population at large are relatively unknown. In the present paper, which includes three studies conducted by online survey with a collective 3,157 participants, classical psychedelic users showed greater psychological strengths and well-being, and lower levels...