JAMA Network Open
June 3, 2024
Amy L. Mcguire, I Glenn Cohen, Dominic Sisti et al.
41 citations
As government agencies around the globe contemplate approval of the first psychedelic medicines, many questions remain about their ethical integration into mainstream medical practice. To identify key ethics and policy issues related to the eventual integration of psychedelic therapies into clinical practice. From June 9 to 12, 2023, 27 individuals representing the perspectives of clinicians,...
Perspectives in biology and medicine
2024
Brent M Kious, Andrew Peterson, Amy L. Mcguire
21 citations
Psychedelic substances have great promise for the treatment of many conditions, and they are the subject of intensive research. As with other medical treatments, both research and clinical use of psychedelics depend on our ability to ensure informed consent by patients and research participants. However, some have argued that informed consent for psychedelic use may be impossible, because...
AJOB Neuroscience
2023
Andrew Peterson, Emily A Largent, Holly Fernandez Lynch et al.
42 citations
In this paper, we examine the case of psychedelic medicine for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). These "mind-altering" drugs are not currently offered as treatments to persons with AD/ADRD, though there is growing interest in their use to treat underlying causes and associated psychiatric symptoms. We present a research agenda for examining the ethics of psychedelic medicine...
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
October 1, 2022
Andrew Peterson, Dominic Sisti
11 citations
Andrew Peterson* and Dominic Sisti Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and Department of Philosophy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain, University of Pennsylvania Memory Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
2019
Andrew Peterson, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Charles Weijer
25 citations
This article provides an ethical analysis of psychedelic research involving disorders of consciousness patients. We apply two internationally accepted approaches for analyzing the ethics of human research, the Value-Validity Framework and Component Analysis, to a research program recently proposed by Scott and Carhart-Harris. We focus on Scott and Carhart-Harris's proposal, but the ethical...