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Berit Singer

4 papers in the library · 15 citations · publishing 2024-2025

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Ayahuasca-inspired DMT/harmine formulation alters creative thinking dynamics during artistic creation.

Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) August 16, 2025 Dila Suay, Helena Aicher, Berit Singer et al.

While psychedelics are often claimed to enhance creativity, their precise effects on distinct stages of creative cognition remain poorly understood. This study investigated the acute effects of an ayahuasca-inspired formulation combining N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and harmine (DMT/HAR), as well as harmine alone (HAR), on micro-level (divergent/convergent thinking) and macro-level (creative...

Ayahuasca-inspired DMT/harmine formulation alters creative thinking dynamics during artistic creation

Universität Zürich, ZORA August 16, 2025 Dila Suay, Helena Dorothea Aicher, Berit Singer et al.

Background: While psychedelics are often claimed to enhance creativity, their precise effects on distinct stages of creative cognition remain poorly understood. This study investigated the acute effects of an ayahuasca-inspired formulation combining N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and harmine (DMT/HAR), as well as harmine alone (HAR), on micro-level (divergent/convergent thinking) and macro-level...

Psilocybin enhances insightfulness in meditation: a perspective on the global topology of brain imaging during meditation.

Scientific Reports March 26, 2024 Berit Singer, Daniel Meling, Matthias Hirsch-Hoffmann et al. 15 citations

In this study, for the first time, we explored a dataset of functional magnetic resonance images collected during focused attention and open monitoring meditation before and after a five-day psilocybin-assisted meditation retreat using a recently established approach, based on the Mapper algorithm from topological data analysis. After generating subject-specific maps for two groups (psilocybin...