Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
September 19, 2024
Gabriella Gobbi
7 citations
For 3000 years, psychedelics have been used in religious contexts to enhance spiritual thinking, well-being, and a sense of community. In the last few years, a renaissance in the use of psychedelic drugs for mental disorders has occurred in Western society; consequently, a pressing scientific need to elucidate the intricate mechanisms underlying their actions has arisen. Psychedelics mainly...
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
June 1, 2022
Stephanie L. Borgland, Drew M. Neyens
14 citations
There has been a substantial growth in private clinics and registered clinical trials employing serotonergic psychedelics for various psychiatric illnesses, including substance use disorder[1][1],[2][2] and major depressive disorder.[3][3]–[6][4] Classical psychedelics include lysergic acid
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
February 26, 2020
Weihua Zhao, Kaeli Zimmermann, Xinqi Zhou et al.
14 citations
Background: Deficient regulation of stress plays an important role in the escalation of substance use, addiction and relapse. Accumulating evidence suggests dysregulations in cognitive and reward-related processes and the underlying neural circuitry in cannabis dependence. However, despite the important regulatory role of the endocannabinoid system in the stress response, associations between...
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
March 1, 2011
Simon N. Young
23 citations
A recent paper in the Archives of General Psychiatry confirms that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) “offers protection against relapse/recurrence on a par with that of maintenance antidepressant pharmacotherapy.”[1][1] It is a tribute to the accumulated wisdom of humankind that a
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
July 1, 2003
Ronald T. Coutts
4 citations
This paperback publication has 428 pages of text, an additional 131 pages of references and an 18-page subject index. The text is organized in 10 chapters, each liberally endowed with relevant figures and tables. The first 3 chapters (72 pages) are very useful because they contain numerous definitions and introduce the reader to neuroscientific and pharmacological topics that appear throughout...