Research Keyword: subjective experience

Interactions between classic psychedelics and serotonergic antidepressants: Effects on the acute psychedelic subjective experience, well-being and depressive symptoms from a prospective survey study

This study examines how antidepressant medications (like SSRIs) affect the experience of classic psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD. Researchers found that people taking these antidepressants experienced less intense emotional and mystical effects from psychedelics, but surprisingly, both groups showed similar improvements in mood and well-being several weeks later. This raises important questions about whether patients need to stop their antidepressants before using psychedelics therapeutically.

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N,N-dimethyltryptamine effects on connectome harmonics, subjective experience and comparative psychedelic experiences

Researchers studied how DMT, a powerful psychedelic drug, changes brain activity patterns and how these changes relate to what people experience. Using advanced brain imaging and network analysis, they found that DMT shifts brain activity away from large-scale network patterns toward smaller, more diverse patterns. Importantly, these brain changes directly tracked with how intensely participants reported experiencing the drug’s effects moment-to-moment.

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