An October 2021 NIH clinical trial funding grant for a JHU psilocybin addiction study is momentous and emblematic of the gradual progression that Heffter has excelled at. The trial on whose result this grant was based was a trial Heffter contributed to by way of...
First, there have been changes at Heffter since our last newsletter. Carey Turnbull has succeeded George Greer as President. George has retired as Medical Director and is now Board Chair. Dave Nichols is Vice-President, and all three make up the Heffter Executive Committee....
This recent publication shows that since the founding of the Heffter Research Institute in 1993, Heffter-affiliated researchers account for 63% (17 of 27) of top-cited articles on classic psychedelics....
Purpose:
This study will investigate neurobiological and psychological effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy in people with major depressive disorder. The primary hypothesis is that psilocybin administered in a therapeutic context will result in neuroplastic changes that parallel improvement in symptoms of depression.
Recently there has been increased interest in microdosing LSD, that is, using doses of LSD that are not psychoactive (typically 10 micrograms). A standard recommendation is microdosing every three days. The basic idea derives from earlier studies of psychoactive doses of LSD or other psychedelics...
The 100th scientific publication with Heffter support has just been published, marking a milestone achievement for Heffter! The first one, in 1998, was about the safety of hallucinogens. Most of the earlier papers were about the effects of MDMA and psilocybin in normal subjects, to...
Heffter scientist Dennis McKenna is heading the upcoming 50th-anniversary conference on the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs. Website: https://espd50.com/ Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/273968006376051/...
"JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: why some psychiatrists and researchers are giving psychedelic drugs a second look as a possible way of treating depression and some mental illnesses. The idea had been shunned for years, but now some say a time for larger trials with the drugs is...
