This coming Monday, May 19, the OPEN Foundation will be hosting me and my esteemed friend & colleague Dr. Alicia Danforth for a conversation about autism & psychedelics!

It's free, it's on Zoom, and everything else I know about it can be found here:
https://open-foundation.org/events/online/autism-and-psychedelics-a-conversation/

Expanded Salience Network Emerges as a Promising Early Biomarker for Depression Risk - SCIENMAG https://apple.news/AGgiVIPEqSwiu_xTIz-GbJg #ketamine #ketamineassistedtherapy #psychedelicassistedtherapy #depression #neuroscience #depression #brains #psychedelics #psychedelic #psychedelicresearch #harmreduction #diet #exercise #mentalhealth

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40336446/ [Interventional psychiatric procedures and novel substances for the treatment of affective disorders: An overview and outlook (Bacht, et al, 2025) #ketamine #mentalhealth #psychotherapy #ketaminetherapy #ketamineassistedpsychotherapy #psychedelics #psychedelictherapy #psychedelicassistedpsychotherapy #psychedelicresearch #ketamineassistedtherapy

Spotlight: Ketamine’s Rapid Antidepressant Effects Mapped Brain-Wide + μ-opioid receptor? #ketamine #ketaminetherapy #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #depression #mentalhealth #neuroscience #ketamineassistedpsychotherapy https://psychedelicmentalhealth.net/spotlight-ketamines-rapid-antidepressant-effects-mapped-brain-wide/

LSD for Anxiety and Depression: Worth the Trip? https://flip.it/71kFpz #psychedelic #psychedelics #lsd #psychotherapy #mentalhealth #psychedelicresearch #anxiety #depression Note— they still have not put together that #ketamine can be the blind in #psychedelicresearch And they still try to minimize the importance of the psychotherapy in medicine assisted psychotherapy. Glad this gets hi-lighted

Psychedelic interventions for major depressive disorder in the elderly: Exploring novel therapies, promise and potential https://flip.it/a7TKDu (Tudorancea, et al, 2025) #psychedelics #psychedelic #depression #mentalhealth #psychedelicresearch

https://psychedelicmentalhealth.net/spotlight-ketamines-rapid-antidepressant-effects-mapped-brain-wide/ Spotlight: Ketamine’s Rapid Antidepressant Effects Mapped Brain-Wide "The deployment of mesoscale brain-wide fluctuation analysis unveils the complex, multiregional neural orchestration underlying ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects, a blueprint for future therapeutic innovation... insights gained from this research hold transformative promise..." #ketamine #ketaminetherapy #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #neuroscience #psychiatry #mentalhealth

Ketamine’s Rapid Antidepressant Effects Mapped Brain-Wide - SCIENMAG https://apple.news/AUoWZT7pvRl-hZuRBVO6HNg #ketamine #ketaminetherapy #neuroscience #depression #mentalhealth #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch

April in Review: Updates on the Psychiatric Treatment Pipeline https://flip.it/BHPxkJ #lsd #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #anxiety #depression #mentalhealth #psychedelicassistedpsychotherapy #neuroscience

Brain Stimulation assisted psychotherapy — OCD Treatment Effectiveness #mentalhealth #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #psychotherapy #brainstimulation #ocd #neuroscience #psychedelicresearch https://apple.news/Aw_vc3Z2RQUaWZgNFVUPdFg https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-025-00410-w

A Comparison of Ketamine to Midazolam for the Management of Acute Behavioral Disturbance in the Out-of-Hospital Setting - PubMed https://flip.it/EuhdzH Una comparación de la ketamina con el midazolam para el manejo de los trastornos agudos del comportamiento en el entorno fuera del hospital #ketamine #ketamina #psychedelic #psychedelics #emergencymedicine #psychedelic #psychiatry #neuroscience #mentalhealth #nursing #behavioralhealth #spravato #psychedelicresearch #research #ketaminesafety

Environmental determinants of ketamine's prohedonic and antianhedonic efficacy: Persistence of enhanced reward responsiveness is modulated by chronic stress (Jenkins, et al, 2025) #ketamine #ketaminetherapy #stress #chronicstress #depression #mentalhealth #psychedelics #psychedelic #psychedelicresearch https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40288209/

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/psymed.2024.0040?journalCode=psymed Ketamine-Occasioned Mystical Experience in Veterans with Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Retrospective Exploratory Analysis (Bhatt, et al, 2025) #ketamine #psychedelic #psychedelics #ketaminetherapy #depression #mystical #mentalhealth #psychedelicresearch

Pharmacological Monotherapy for Depressive Disorders: Current and Future-A Narrative Review (Gao, et al, 2025) #ketamine #psychedelic #psychedelics #depression #mentalhealth #antidepressants #ketaminetherapy #psychedelictherapy #psychedelicresearch

Neuroscience: Special K gets an 'A' (Jacobs & Douglass, 2025) #ketamine #mentalhealth #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #neuroscience

Chronic, combinatorial targeting of NMDARs and 5-HT4Rs exerts extended behavioral effects against stress-induced perseverative behavior and hyponeophagia (Chen, et al, 2025) #ketamine #ketaminetherapy #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #mentalhealth #ketaminesafety #drugsafety #neuroscience

Single-dose psychedelic enhances cognitive flexibility and reversal learning in mice weeks after administration (Brouns, et al, 2025) #psychedelic #psychedelics #mentalhealth #psychedelicresearch

Adjunctive ketamine vs. buprenorphine in co-occurring major depressive disorder and opioid use disorder: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial assessing anxiety symptom severity and craving intensity (Mansoori, et al, 2025) #ketamine #addiction #recovery #opioids #depression #anxiety #ketaminetherapy #buprenorphine #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #mentalhealth https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40247293/

Here's the official info on the new Bachelor of Science program in Psychedelic Studies that I helped to create (and will be teaching in) at California Institute of Integral Studies.

#psychedelics #psychology #consciousness #cognition #academia #education #therapy #mind #psychedelicresearch

https://www.ciis.edu/academics/continuing-undergraduate-programs/bachelor-science-psychedelic-studies

Qualitative analysis of a patient's experience of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for substance use disorder: Empirical synergies with twelve-step programs (Petrovitch, et al, 2025) #ketamine #recovery #mentalhealth #psychedelics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773021225000161 #ketaminetherapy #KetamineAssistedPsychotherapy #psychedelicresearch #psychedelictherapy #psychedelicassistedtherapy