Katharine Dunlop
Psychiatrist and Clinical Researcher
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Research Footprint
Katharine Dunlop appears in 9 tracked papers (2017–2025), most studied alongside Psilocybin, MDMA and Ketamine, across Depressive Disorders, Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) and PTSD.
Most-cited paper: Single-Dose Psilocybin for a Treatment-Resistant Episode of Major Depression (1057 citations).
Frequent co-authors: Boadie Dunlop, Jessica Maples-Keller and Guy Goodwin.
Background & Research
B. W. Dunlop (full given name not provided) is a clinician–researcher active in contemporary psychedelic clinical research with a focus on affective and anxiety‑related disorders. Drawing on a programme of randomised, placebo‑controlled trials and longitudinal observational studies, Dunlop has contributed to investigations of MDMA’s acute and subacute effects on personality, affective state, and fear extinction retention in healthy volunteers, and to clinical studies of single‑dose psilocybin for treatment‑resistant major depressive episodes and long‑term follow‑up of those outcomes.
Dunlop’s work also spans methodological innovation in outcome prediction, including the application of natural language processing to predict clinical response to psilocybin therapy. Across these studies, the emphasis is on translational clinical endpoints — symptom change in depressive and anxiety disorders, mechanisms related to fear extinction and affect regulation, and predictors of durable therapeutic response — positioning Dunlop as a contributor to both therapeutic development and mechanistic understanding within psychedelic psychiatry. Please supply the researcher’s full first name or additional identifiers to enable a more complete bibliographic and institutional profile.
Key Impact
Notable for clinical research into the therapeutic and mechanistic effects of MDMA and psilocybin on fear extinction, personality/affect, and treatment‑resistant depression.
Collaboration Network
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Affiliations
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University of Toronto
University of Toronto is a leading Canadian research university whose psychedelic and psychiatric research spans the Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network collaborations, and specialized clinical units including mood-disorders psychopharmacology programs.
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academicThe Psychedelic Studies Research Program (PSRP) distinguishes itself by adhering strictly to the principles of Open Science, pre-registering their analysis plans, and making their data and protocols freely accessible. A primary focus for the team at the PSRP is the clinical study of microdosing. Led by Dr. Norman Farb, the program conducts double-blind, randomized controlled trials investigating the benefits and drawbacks of microdosing very low doses of psilocybin.
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