Rebecca Harding

🚨WE'RE RECRUITING!🚨 Are you looking to cut down on your alcohol consumption? We are researching the potential of the psychedelic drug DMT to help reduce alcohol intake. Who we're looking for: - Age: 21-65 - Heavy drinkers - Based in London 👉bit.ly/unity-ucl

Was discussing ketamine on ⁦@bbc5live⁩ at 10.40am today & noted early indications from the annual English Festival Study that young adult prevalence *might* be peaking, with 1 in 3 taking it at UK festivals. ⁦@WeAreTheLoopUK⁩ ⁦@LivUni⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

@EllaWTuominen @ymyymmr @PaLSPPG @SOBP Such an elegant study design!

Got to present the incredible work by @ymyymmr that I'm currently continuing concerning the impact of anxiety increasing (threat of shock) and reducing (benzodiazepine) study manipulations on avoidance at the @PaLSPPG weekly seminar this week🙌 Next up: Toronto and @SOBP meeting!

New preprint!🧘‍♀️🍄 “Practitioner perspectives on meditation-based preparation for psychedelic experiences.” osf.io/preprints/psya… @joanna_kuc @milly_sellers @neurodelia @sunjeevk @MatthewSacchet

"In the short-term, dramatically destabilizing treatments for depression will often result in some positive anecdotal reports. This is true for ketamine, as it was true for Freud and cocaine"... very thought-provoking counterpunch.org/2025/01/03/psy…

exeter.ac.uk/study/online/c… The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, history, therapy, anthropology, pharmacology, art, and more.

"He is haunted by the words of a doctor who told him that he’d “chosen the one drug that completely ruins your body”. “I never knew that about ketamine,” he says." theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

📢 Exciting opportunity: @UCL_CPU is hiring a postdoc for a new clinical trial exploring nitrous oxide therapy for PTSD! Work alongside @sunjeevk in a the best lab ever... Please share! jobs.ac.uk/job/DKI751/res…

How can 2C-B 💊contribute to psychedelic neuroscience, an otherwise "forgotten" psychedelic? We went off with @singletonion ,@NL_Mason , @sattertt and Jan to take an initial look at this using 7T resting state fMRI. 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Here's a preliminary release of our calculator to explore sample size and scan time to maximize individual-level prediction accuracy: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calculato… Let us know if anything is unclear or if there's bugs. Your feedback is welcome. If you find this calculator helpful for your grant application, etc, please also let us know!

🙌🧐 The online MSc - Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture, is now ready for a January intake. With the amazing teachers: @PeterSjostedtH, @profceliamorgan, @AndyLetcher, Christine Hauskeller, myself - and a lot of guest lecturers (🙏) @UniofExeter exeter.ac.uk/study/online/c…

🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨 Very pleased to present our new commentary piece at Neuroscience Insights: "Neuroimaging and the Investigation of Drug-Drug Interactions Involving Psychedelics" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

Ever wondered what happens in the brain when someone takes the world’s most powerful psychedelic drug?🧐Me too! So we went and found out. Our new preprint is now live where you can read all about it: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The age of spiritual machines: Language quietus induces synthetic altered states of consciousness in AI Shifting CLIP/FLAVA's attention away from language simulates ego-loss & unitive & minimal phenomenal states via semantic category blurring 🍄🧘 arxiv.org/abs/2410.00257

Autonomic nervous system activity correlates with peak experiences induced by DMT and predicts increases in well-being dlvr.it/TDTymL

🚨WE'RE RECRUITING!🚨 We are researching the potential of the psychedelic drug DMT to help reduce alcohol intake. Who we're looking for: - Age: 21-65 - Heavy drinkers - London-based 👉bit.ly/unity-ucl #Alcohol #Psychedelic #Science #UCL #London #Clinicaltrial

New collab. between Drug Science and UCL will see the pair aim to "address the specific concerns" raised by FDA in its recent decision on Lykos' MDMA-assisted therapy NDA, most notably those related to the 'assisted psychotherapy' element. drugscience.org.uk/uclmdma

🚨New Paper🚨 We explored pharmacological and extra-pharmacological predictors of the #psychedelic #LSD experience!Dose is key! Personality traits, mood, and pre-drug states are also major influencers! Sex and body weight? Not so much! @p_vizeli nature.com/articles/s4139…

In the first episode, @sgdruffell and @drdluke discuss the more extreme end of psychedelia, how they can alter our understanding of reality and connection to nature, and the necessity of considering other frameworks of knowledge 👉open.spotify.com/episode/66zzxM…

This is a very nice pre-print. Inching closer to actual evidence for anatomical neuroplasticity in living human brain. Many seem unaware we don't yet have such evidence researchsquare.com/article/rs-424…

Humans excel in decoding subtle social cues, but how about large language models? Our latest @TurkuPETCentre preprint shows that GPT-4V shines in high-level social vision - huge potential for e.g. patient monitoring, surveillance and marketing: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…