9-13 George St
Oxford OX1 2AU
UK
7:00 – 7:30 Welcome
7:30 – 8:30 Talk
8:30 – 11:00 Open discussion and social
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For the first ever speaker event of the Oxford Psychedelic Society, we’re thrilled to be hosting Dr Robin Carhart-Harris. Robin heads the Psychedelic Research Group within the Centre for Psychiatry at Imperial College London, where he has designed a number of functional brain imaging studies with psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, MDMA (ecstasy) and DMT (ayahuasca), plus a clinical trial of psilocybin for treatment resistant depression. He has over 50 published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Three of his papers scored within the top 100 most impactful science papers of the year, over the last two years (Altmetric.com). Robin’s research has featured in major national and international media, he has been profiled by the Independent, New Scientist and Wired magazine and has given a popular TEDx talk.
This talk will detail our group’s latest thinking on how psychedelic compounds work in the brain to produce their remarkable effects on consciousness. It will also describe latest research on their therapeutic potential, including results of our recent trial of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-of-medicine/research/brain-sciences/psychiatry/psychedelics/