Thomas Passie

Psychiatrist and Psychopharmacologist

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Papers

13 publications

Trials

0 clinical trials

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Research Footprint

Thomas Passie appears in 13 tracked papers (2002–2023), most studied alongside MDMA, LSD and Ketamine, across Substance Use Disorders (SUD), Healthy Volunteers and Anxiety Disorders.

Most-cited paper: Safety and efficacy of lysergic acid diethylamide-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety associated with life-threatening diseases (744 citations).

Frequent co-authors: James Halpern, Simon Brandt and Yasmin Schmid.

Background & Research

Thomas Passie is a clinician-researcher whose work spans clinical trials, human pharmacology, and historical/pharmacological scholarship in the field of psychedelic substances. His publications and trials include human volunteer research comparing entactogens (e.g. MDAI versus MDMA), investigations of LSD-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety associated with life‑threatening illness, epidemiological and safety studies of sacramental hallucinogen use, and accounts of the rediscovery and pharmacology of MDMA. He has also reported clinical case series exploring the use of the non‑hallucinogenic analogue 2‑bromo‑LSD as a preventative treatment for cluster headache.

Affiliations

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