Breaking: MDMA Phase 3 Results
The long-awaited results of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Phase 3 clinical trial have arrived. This...
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yourbrainscience
- Aug 21
- 2 min
Lit Review Magic: The Evidence for Psychedelics to treat Addiction
Check out some of the great studies Alaina mentioned in the latest episode of Your Brain on Science! As always, if you need a pdf or...
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yourbrainscience
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Journal Club: Comparing Altered States of Consciousness
In episode 8 of season 3 we spoke about a paper which made some much-needed contributions to the understanding of altered states of...
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yourbrainscience
- Jun 15
- 9 min
Breaking: Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period
It's been a busy week in psychedelics, as researchers attempt to stay caught up on the latest research in the field. Last week, we broke...
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yourbrainscience
- Jun 13
- 3 min
WTF is a head twitch?!
You may have noticed that a lot of basic psychedelic research revolves around this single assay: the head twitch response (HTR). The...
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yourbrainscience
- Jun 6
- 6 min
Breaking: Psychedelics evidenced to modulate plasticity via BDNF-related mechanisms
It was a big day in psychedelic neuroscience on Monday, with the publication of an article titled "Psychedelics promote plasticity by...
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yourbrainscience
- Jun 5
- 1 min
Welcome to Season 3!
If you listened to Season 3 Episode 1 and wanted to read some of the articles we mention you can check them out + more below! As always,...
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yourbrainscience
- May 8
- 5 min
Journal Club: Trial of Ketamine Masked by Surgical Anesthesia in Depressed Patients
Over the weekend, a new preprint was released from Stanford University focused on better understanding potential drug placebo effects in...
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yourbrainscience
- May 3
- 5 min
Journal Club: 5-MeO-DMT modifies innate behaviors and promotes structural neural plasticity in mice
It’s no secret that plasticity is becoming a buzzword in the psychedelic field. Anyone and everyone points to plasticity as being the...
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Sasha Sisko
- Apr 21
- 10 min
The Doblin Effect
Co-written by Alaina M. Jaster & Sasha Sisko On our final episode of the season we were joined by Sasha Sisko, an independent journalist,...
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yourbrainscience
- Apr 4
- 1 min
Psychedelics and the Corporate World
In this week’s episode, Zarmeen sits down with Russell Hausfeld of psymposia for a chat on psychedelics in the corporate world. In this...
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yourbrainscience
- Mar 29
- 6 min
Journal Club: At Home LSD Microdosing
An exciting article, "Acute mood-elevating properties of microdosed LSD in healthy volunteers: a home-administered randomised controlled...
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yourbrainscience
- Mar 19
- 2 min
Self-concept and Ego
Alaina sat down with Dr. NeÅŸe Devenot, a psychedelics and bio ethics researcher to talk about their work with understanding different...
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yourbrainscience
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Common Factors of Psychotherapy
This week's episode was with Dr. Natalie Gukasyan psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins at the Center of Psychedelic and Consciousness Research....
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yourbrainscience
- Feb 21
- 5 min
Journal Club: Vargas et al 2023 - Intracellular 5-HT2A Receptors?
A recent study suggesting a novel mechanism of psychedelic action was published just a few days ago. This study by Vargas et al, out of...
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yourbrainscience
- Feb 11
- 2 min
Psychedelic Harm Reduction
In this weeks episode of YBOS, Alaina and Zarmeen talk about the origins of harm reduction. The origins of harm reduction programs lie in...
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yourbrainscience
- Jan 15
- 3 min
Psychedelic Moments to Remember from 2022
We know 2022 was a wild year for psychedelics. From the resurrection of microdosing, to the great debates of functional connectivity, to...
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yourbrainscience
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
Microdosing, Myth or Magic?
Here are some of the studies we mentioned in Episode 13! Psilocybin microdosing does not affect emotion-related symptoms and processing:...
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yourbrainscience
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
Plasticity & Psychoplastogens
Check out some more work from Dr. Lindsay Cameron and the Olson Lab! A Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic Analog with Therapeutic Potential...
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yourbrainscience
- Nov 19, 2022
- 3 min
COMPASS Pathways Phase 2 Psilocybin Study
We shared a lot of our thoughts about the recent published study on psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression in Episode 9. Here we...
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