Journal of Psychiatric Research
September 1, 2022
Abhishek Ghosh, Simranjit Kaur, Raghav Shah et al.
BACKGROUND & AIM We examined group differences in cortical thickness and surface-parameters among age and handedness--matched persons with cannabis-induced psychosis (CIP), schizophrenia with heavy cannabis use (SZC), and healthy controls (HC). METHODS We recruited 31 men with SZC, 28 with CIP, and 30 with HC. We used the Psychiatric Research Interview for Substance and Mental Disorders to...
Psychopharmacology
September 2022
Miaojun Lai, Dan Fu, Zeming Xu et al.
Following the emergence of methylone as one of the most popular synthetic cathinones, this group of novel psychoactive substance with names ending in "-lone," such as dibutylone, ethylone, and N-ethylpentylone, appeared on the recreational drug market. The pharmacological mechanisms of dibutylone, ethylone, and N-ethylpentylone are well understood; however, to date, the reinforcing effects of...
Mind & Language
September 1, 2022
Richard Heersmink
In this paper, I describe how artifacts and autobiographical memory are integrated into new systemic wholes, allowing us to remember our personal past in a more reliable and detailed manner. After discussing some empirical work on lifelogging technology, I elaborate on the dimension of autobiographical dependency, which is the degree to which we depend on an object to be able to remember a...
International Journal of Yoga
September 1, 2022
Senthil K Subramanian, Vidya D Sripad, Amudharaj Dharmalingam et al.
Context: COVID-19-affected patients showed increased stress, impaired sleep quality, altered complete blood count, and increased inflammatory and oxidative parameters. Yoga is an add-on nonpharmacological treatment that is established to normalize the abovementioned parameters. Heartfulness meditation is a form of Raja yoga. Aims: The present study aimed to study the effects of 4 weeks of...
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
September 1, 2022
Jayesh R. Jadhav
Modern life moves so quickly that there isn't even time to breathe. Science, business, political structures, and other areas of human endeavour have advanced dramatically. They are seeing an upsurge in mental illness, delinquency, crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, and suicide, among other things, despite their advancements in these domains. Social issues have always existed, ranging from...
Annales de Toxicologie Analytique
September 1, 2022
M. Augsburger, J. Déglon, Christèle Widmer et al.
Aim: Swiss drug policy aims to reduce recreational drug consumption and its negative consequences. The strategy is based on a four pillars concept: prevention, therapy, harm reduction and repression. Among harm reduction programs drug checking (DC) facilities have emerged, allowing drug users to check the presence of adulterants or other non-expected substances, and to gain information...
Psychiatric Annals
September 1, 2022
Mitch Earleywine, Zachary Herrmann
5 citations
Initial promise and dire need have inspired the multiple research programs of the second psychedelic renaissance. Serotonergic psychedelics (psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide, and ayahuasca) have decreased end-of-life anxiety in cancer patients, treatment-resistant depression, alcohol dependence, social anxiety in autistic adults, and nicotine dependence when applied with supportive...
Cureus
September 1, 2022
Joshua S Kurtz, Neal A Patel, Julian L Gendreau et al.
35 citations
Although early therapeutic research on psychedelics dates back to the 1940s, this field of investigation was met with many cultural and legal challenges in the 1970s. Over the past two decades, clinical trials using psychedelics have resumed. Therefore, the goal of this study was to (1) better characterize the recent uptrend in psychedelics in clinical trials and (2) identify areas where...
Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
August 31, 2022
Katarzyna Karaś, Katarzyna Groblińska, Krzysztof Szczygieł et al.
Research on the use of psychoactive substances in mental disorder treatment has become increasingly important over the last 50 years. Numerous publications suggest their effectiveness in the treatment of many diseases, including depression and anxiety disorders, PTSD, psychoactive substance dependence, ADHD and Tourette’s Syndrome. Particularly noteworthy is the use of psychedelics such as...
Nature Neuroscience
August 30, 2022
Polymnia Georgiou, Panos Zanos, Ta-Chung M. Mou et al.
We show that the sex of human experimenters affects mouse behaviors and responses following administration of the rapid-acting antidepressant ketamine and its bioactive metabolite (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine. Mice showed aversion to the scent of male experimenters, preference for the scent of female experimenters and increased stress susceptibility when handled by male experimenters. This...