Psychedelics Research Links June 2020

This is all the other psychedelic research that came out in June 2020. These papers don’t (yet) have their own page in our database.

Find our recap of the most interesting papers this month in our June Recap.

You can find all interesting papers in our Papers Database.

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• The Therapeutic Potential of Psilocybin and 3,4- Methylenedioxymethamphetamine in the Treatment of Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (thesis project, an overview of psilocybin and MDMA research)

• Synthesis and characterization of high‐purity N,N‐dimethyltryptamine (DMT) hemifumarate for human clinical trials (How to make DMT, if you have a lab)

• Direct Phosphorylation of Psilocin Enables Optimized cGMP Kilogram-Scale Manufacture of Psilocybin (How to make psilocybin, at scale)

• The Psychedelic Arena: Discourse, identity and conflict within the psychedelic social world (thesis, analysis of the social world of psychedelics)

• Psychedelic drugs as new tools in psychiatric therapeutics (short article on psychedelic research with a focus on Brazil)

• Elaboración y validación de un cuestionario para detección del riesgo de reacciones adversas graves por empleo de drogas psicodélicas en terapia (possibly good article about use of a screening tool to reduce risk of use of psychedelics)

• Dose-Dependent Effects of the Serotonergic Psychedelic (R)-DOI are Contingent on Prior Coping Strategies to an Escapable Social Stress (animal (rat) testing of (R)-DOI for social stress, showed a dose-dependent effect on stress behavior)

• Science at the Border of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry (commentary on the field from anesthesiologists perspective)

• Signaling Mechanism Responsible for 5-HT2A Receptor Tolerance to Psychedelic Induced Head-Twitch Behavior in Mice (identifies MAP Kinase pathway as important in mediating psychedelic induced head twitch behavior (in mice))

• Subjective Time Under Altered States of Consciousness in Ayahuasca Users in Shamanistic Rituals Involving Music (“… less temporal distortion among participants with ayahuasca intake disagree with other studies of hallucinogens involving temporal reproduction”)

• A systematic review of ketamine for the treatment of depression among older adults (analysis/review of two studies, one positive, one no effect of ketamine for depression with participants 60 y/o+)

• Patient preferences for ketamine-based antidepressant treatments in treatment-resistant depression: Results from a clinical trial and panel (patients were most concerned about reduction in depressive symptoms)

• A higher dose (0.8 mg/kg) of ketamine infusion for treatment-resistant depression: An open-label study in Taiwan (a higher dose was tolerated and produced better treatment outcomes)

• What ketamine can teach us about the opioid system in depression? (editorial, on the opioid system and ketamine)

• Safety and tolerability of IV ketamine in adults with major depressive or bipolar disorder: results from the Canadian rapid treatment center of excellence (favorable analysis of safety and tolerability of IV ketamine on 203 patients)

• How Do Online and Offline Sampling Compare in a Multinational Study of Drug Use and Nightlife Behaviour? (differences in online and offline sampling methods, but not large)