Psychedelics: mechanisms of action and therapeutic potential

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• Dr Robin Carhart-Harris - Head of Psychedelic Research, Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
• Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00
• Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Lorraine Coulson.

Psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and DMT (ayahuasca) have been used for hundreds of years by certain cultures and are now being re-investgiated for their therapeutic potential. This talk will address the basic pharmacology of psychedelics, plus their effects on brain dynamics and behaviour. A model is presented on how psychedelics alter brain function to alter mental function and behaviour, and how this may render them therapeutically and experimentally useful.

This talk is part of the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars series.

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