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Insights on Psychedelics: A Systematic Review of Therapeutic Effects

This systematic review (s=98) examining psychedelic-catalysed insight found that 86% of studies showed insight was linked to therapeutic improvement, with insight being dose-dependent and significantly higher than placebo in 93% of comparative studies, suggesting insight may be a key mechanism in psychedelic therapy.

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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
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Kugel, J., Laukkonen, R., Yaden, D. B., Yücel, M., Liknaitzky, P.
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Who Are You After Psychedelics? A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis of the Magnitude of Long-Term Effects of Serotonergic Psychedelics on Cognition/Creativity, Emotional Processing and Personality

This systematic review & meta-analysis (2024; s=10; n=304) synthesized data from contemporary studies, including both randomised and non-randomised controlled trials, to evaluate lasting effects of serotonergic psychedelics on cognition, creativity, emotional processing, and personality. Overall, no statistically significant effects were observed for most outcome measures; however, a meta-analysis of emotional recognition outcomes revealed faster reaction times in the active treatment groups for disgust and sadness.

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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
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Solaja, I., Haldane, K., Mason, N., Weiss, B., Xu, X., Xu, M., Nikolin, S., Jayasena, T., Millard, M., Brett, J., Bayes, A., Loo, C. K., Martin, D. M.
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Synthetic surprise as the foundation of the psychedelic experience

This hypothesis paper proposes that psychedelic agents like LSD and psilocybin induce altered states of consciousness by activating the 5-HT2A receptor system, leading to a state of synthetic surprise. This concept is based on recent understandings of serotonin's role in signaling surprise and is framed within the predictive coding framework, where surprise is seen as a mismatch between expectations and sensory input. The paper suggests that psychedelics disrupt maladaptive patterns by dynamically interacting with top-down expectations and sensory data, with implications for their clinical use, particularly emphasizing their ability to induce surprise to promote therapeutic effects.

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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Authors
De Filippo, R., Schmitz, D.
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Functional imaging studies of acute administration of classic psychedelics, ketamine, and MDMA: Methodological limitations and convergent results

This systematic review (s=51) examines fMRI studies on the acute effects of psychedelics like psilocybin, LSD, and ketamine on the human brain. The review highlights significant methodological inconsistencies across studies, including 54% not meeting contemporary Type I error correction or motion artefact control standards. Despite these limitations, convergent findings indicate that psilocybin and LSD affect the connectivity architecture of the sensorimotor-association cortical axis, while ketamine increases activation in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.

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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
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Linguiti, S., Vogel, J. W., Sydnor, V. J., Pines, A., Wellman, N., Basbaum, A., Eickhoff, C. R., Eickhoff, S. B., Edwards, R. R., Larsen, B., McKinstry-Wu, A., Scott, J. C., Roalf, D. R., Sharma, V., Strain, E. C., Corder, G., Dworkin, R. H., Satterthwaite, T. D.
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The Relationship Between the Default Mode Network and the Theory of Mind Network as Revealed by Psychedelics- A Meta-Analysis

This meta-analysis (s=88, n=2122) investigates the overlap between the Default Mode Network (DMN) and the Theory of Mind (ToM) networks, and their modulation by psychedelics. It reveals that the cingulate cortex plays a crucial role in the overlap between these networks, and psychedelics affect their neural relationship, potentially explaining their impact on self-perception and social cognition.

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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Authors
Soares, C., Gonzalo, G., Castelhano, J. M., Castelo-Branco, M.
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Don’t Be Afraid, Try to Meditate- Potential Effects on Neural Activity and Connectivity of Psilocybin-Assisted Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Social Anxiety Disorder: A systematic review

This systematic review (2022) explores the potential mechanisms by which combined psilocybin and mindfulness treatment could adjust anomalous neural activity underlying social anxiety disorder (SAD) and exert therapeutic effects. Proposed mechanisms include changes in cognitive processes like biased attention to threats linked to SAD by modulating connectivity of the salience network and more.

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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Authors
Kuypers, K. P. C.

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Papers Indexed
22
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305
Open Access
No
Publisher
Elsevier
Country
United Kingdom
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