Psychedelic Science
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David Nutt
Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology
David Nutt runs the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial, the lab that pushed modern psilocybin therapy into mainstream psychiatry. He was Chair of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until he was fired for publishing evidence that alcohol is more harmful than many banned drugs.
Their work
Key papers by David
Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression
The Lancet Psychiatry · 2016
The foundational modern-era psilocybin trial.
Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse
The Lancet · 2007
The paper that got him fired — and is still the best starting point on drug-policy evidence.
Psychedelics
Pharmacological Reviews · 2023
Ketamine effects on brain GABA and glutamate levels with 1H-MRS: relationship to ketamine-induced psychopathology
Molecular Psychiatry · 2012
LSD enhances suggestibility in healthy volunteers
Psychopharmacology · 2014
Mourning and melancholia revisited: correspondences between principles of Freudian metapsychology and empirical findings in neuropsychiatry
Annals of General Psychiatry · 2008
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