Irene Maurício Cazorla

A six-month prospective evaluation of personality traits, psychiatric symptoms and quality of life in ayahuasca-naïve subjects.

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs September 1, 2009 Paulo César Ribeiro Barbosa, Irene Maurício Cazorla, Joel Sales Giglio et al. 113 citations

The authors assessed 23 subjects immediately before and six months (27.5 weeks) after their first ayahuasca experience in an urban Brazilian religious setting, either Santo Daime (N = 15) or União do Vegetal (N = 8). Measures included scores on instruments assessing psychiatric symptoms, personality variables and quality of life. Independent variables were the frequency of ayahuasca use...