Podcast: Metaplasticity and Reopening Critical Periods with Psychedelics

This podcast discusses how psychedelics reopen critical periods of learning, and how the true benefit of psychedelics could be in learning how best to reopen those critical periods, how long they’re open for, and which therapeutic frameworks and integration practices could best take advantage of them.

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Risks with Psychedelics

This study looked at quantitative and qualitative data from 608 participants who reported extended difficulties following psychedelic experiences.

The most common forms of extended difficulty were feelings of anxiety and fear, existential struggle, social disconnection, depersonalization and derealization.

For approximately one-third of the participants, problems persisted for over a year, and for a sixth, they endured for more than three years.

It was found that a shorter duration of difficulties was predicted by knowledge of dose, drug type and lower levels of difficulty reported during the psychoactive experience, while a narrower range of difficulties was predicted by taking the drug in a guided setting.

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Psychedelics- An Update

Psychedelic Science 2023 brought together 12,000 registrants in Denver, Colorado, four times as many people as the previous conference in 2017, crowning the movement to rehabilitate psychedelics for therapeutic use against depression and other disorders.

Science unveils unsuspected mechanisms of brain reconfiguration and ends decades of research bans imposed by the war on drugs, but serious obstacles remain to be overcome.

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