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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"psychedelics"”.
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
<p>Using the discourse of Political Theology as a mode of enquiry we can overcome a longstanding tension between aesthetics and history that characterized much of twentieth century thought. Focusing on literary and occasionally musical works from the mid twentieth century, my aim is to show how …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
… Evidence suggests that these theorists used psychedelics for insights akin to an anagogic interpretation of various works from Hegel to the Tao Te Ching. The conclusion of this thesis briefly ties in contemporary examples and suggests these trends will continue today in the wake of the …
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The Economics of Crime: Exploring the Impact of Psychedelics, Gun Liability Insurance, and Zero-Bail Policies on Crime
… crime through the rehabilitative potential of psychedelics. This study examines the causal impact of psychedelic decriminalization on violent and property crime rates using monthly city-level panel data from 2017–2023 for five California cities that enacted such reforms. We apply a partially …
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Flashback : the return of psychedelic medicine
… various psychological and societal ills; but as psychedelics got caught up in the counter-culture, they fell out of favor with the public, and practically vanished from the research world as quickly as they'd appeared. Now, decades after they all but disappeared, psychedelics are making a …
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Culture is not your friend: Psychedelic literature of the 20th century and its subversive effect in an industrial world
… to their new-found societies. The influence of psychedelics on the hippie generations of the 1960s and beyond was substantial and inspired important breakthroughs of the computer age, as well as in psychology, quantum theory, molecular biology, art and literature. Despite this, the cultural …
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A comparison of NN-DMT, changa & 5-MeO-DMT and the near-death experience: qualitative analyses and reviews of the neuroscience
… on entropy and thus on richness of experience by psychedelics implies their possible endogenous function in the, otherwise ‘paradoxical’, recovery of consciousness near death. Psychometric and semantic analyses have indicated psychedelics, especially those reliably inducing immersive states of …
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Low-Input and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Technologies and Their Application to Disease Studies
… to study brain neuroscience and immunology. Psychedelics like DOI show promising clinical efficacy in patients with psychiatric conditions. Although psychedelics exhibit rapid antidepression action and long-lasting effectiveness compared to conventional treatment, their acute psychotic …
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Investigating the Neurophenomenological Dynamics of Breathwork and DMT
… rich states, such as those induced by psychedelics, have recently been praised as useful tools within the neuroscience of consciousness, due to their radical and reversible impacts on both brain dynamics and subjective experience. However, much of the previous research has neglected …
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Puer Fungus
… on running his own ambitious start-up, blending psychedelics and animal recovery into an experimental venture. Eyal's inspiration stems from his own transformative psychedelic experiences, which he believes hold the answer to society's deepest struggles. As the documentary unfolds, Eyal's life …
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A ayahuasca modula a resiliência? Uma avaliação em modelo animal primata não-humano de depressão maior
… postulates that resilience can be gained, the psychedelics have become the target of research with prophylactic schemes against the emergence of some mental diseases. Ayahuasca (AYA) is a traditional beverage from the Amazon Forest that acts on the serotonergic system, and in addition to …
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Low-Input Multi-Omic Studies of Brain Neuroscience Involved in Mental Diseases
… biological studies: the effect of psychedelics in mice, schizophrenia, and the effect of maternal immune activation in mice offspring. The second generation of MOWChIP-seq was designed to generate histone modification profiles from as few as 100 cells per assay with a throughput as …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
Psychedelics can enable a broad and paradoxical spectrum of linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with …
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The Scientist and the Jaguar: Sacred Plants and the Politics of Knowledge in the northwestern Amazon, 1849 - 2023
This dissertation examines the history of psychedelics in the Americas by focusing on ayahuasca, a plant derivative native to the Amazonian lowlands that I describe as a “plant-being.” The project traces how a transnational network life and human scientists sought to transform ayahuasca from a …
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Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data
… regarding the therapeutic mechanisms of psychedelics cannot withstand positivistic representation and digitization. Henceforth, psychedelic research demands frameworks for epistemic legitimation which differ from those predicated on the criteria associated with the data episteme. I …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
… ‘quantified self’ time-tracking and reparative psychedelics alongside Myriam Gurba’s dual attraction to forward- looking creative productivity advice but also trauma recovery and queer time cultures that look in other directions. Chapter 4 demonstrates how diverse self-help time theories …
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The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture
There are transformative experiences of altered states of consciousness common to the human condition that exist across cultures, belief systems and appear in both religious and secular literature. These experiences can hold profound meaning to the individuals that hold them and cause tremendous …
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THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS: A MULTIMODAL NEUROIMAGING AND COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHEDELIC TRYPTAMINES AND MDMA ON HUMAN BRAIN DYNAMICS
Psychedelic and entactogenic drugs, once prohibited, are now being decriminalized at the local level and are poised to soon be regulated as medicines by the FDA. With nearly 100 pharmaceutical and biotech companies developing novel therapeutics from these compounds, it is essential to understand …
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Ready, Set, Action: Potential Breakthrough Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression
<p>Major depressive disorder is a psychiatric illness that is associated with a variety of debilitating symptoms such as persistent sadness, lack of interest and motivation, lassitude, pessimistic thoughts, and in severe cases, suicidal ideation and behavior. Current psychological and …
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Legislating the Taboo: Taboo Subcultures, Political Communication, and Public Policy
<p>This dissertation, titled "Legislating the Taboo: From Subculture to Public Policy," comprises three articles that collectively delve into the intersection of taboo subcultures, political communication, and public policy. While the fields of sociology and anthropology more thoroughly explore the …
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Probing the Boundaries of Human Agency
<p>In this dissertation, I aim to advance our understanding of human agency and how it is computed. First, I probe the limits of what behavior we can and cannot produce agentically. Secondly, I explore microdosing with psychedelic drugs as a method of perturbing and studying changes to the sense of …
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