Psychedeliology (HALLUCINOGENS) Part 1 with Dr. Charles Grob
Magic mushrooms, LSD, ayahuasca ceremonies, DMT, ketamine: this episode is a grab bag of trippy facts. Renowned psychiatry professor and psychedelics researcher Dr. Charles Grob of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center sits down to talk about how much LSD is too much LSD, what juices are squirting in the brain when you're tripping out, who should NOT take psychedelics, talking to dead people, serendipitous libraries, late night phone calls, antidepressants and mushrooms, the murky history of psychedelic research, and future paths of study that may help the world. Next week, wall-to-wall listener questions and some tales from your internet dad’s own journey.
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Browse Dr. Grob’s publications on ResearchGate
Buy his book, Hallucinogens: A Reader
A donation was made to Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines
Links to things we discussed:
Pilot study of psilocybin treatment for anxiety in patients with advanced-stage cancer
Human hallucinogen research: guidelines for safety
The Origin of the Term “Psychedelic”
Why Indigenous ‘Spirit medicine’ principles must be a priority in psychedelic research
Michael Pollan’s book “How to Change Your Mind”
“Fantastic Fungi” documentary
Maria Sabina and Visionary Mushrooms
Salvador Roquet Remembered: An Innovative Psychedelic Therapist in 1960s Mexico
Old Trips, New Destinations: Recent Advances in the Study of Psychoactive Drugs with Harriet de Wit
“Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control” by Stephen Kinzer
From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets
Dreams and Psychedelics: Neurophenomenological Comparison and Therapeutic Implication
Natural vs. Synthetic Psilocybin: The Same or Completely Different?
CIA-Funded Research Exploited Black Americans in Search of “Mind-Control” Drug
Attenuation of psilocybin mushroom effects during and after SSRI/SNRI antidepressant use
A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics
Single-Dose Psilocybin Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder
Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
Modern Psychedelic Microdosing Research on Mental Health: A Systematic Review
Therapeutic use of psilocybin: Practical considerations for dosing and administration
Psilocybin, in 10mg or 25mg doses, has no short- or long-term detrimental effects in healthy people
Repeated low doses of LSD in healthy adults: A placebo-controlled, dose–response study
More People Are Microdosing for Mental Health. But Does It Work?
The brain's default network: origins and implications for the study of psychosis
Trial of Psilocybin versus Escitalopram for Depression
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