07 Jun FDA Advisory Committee Defends Status Quo
“We already have evidence-based treatments for PTSD”...
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23 May As California Goes Part III: Death by Committee
The psychedelic field lost a great friend, colleague—and I would say mentor—as Ken Jordan, co-founder and Editorial Director of Lucid New, passed away unexpectedly.Ken was also the founder of Reality Sandwich, Evolver, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen—media platforms that shared the attributes of sincerity, curiosity and...
09 May Can Mental Health Parity Laws Ensure Access to Psychedelic Assisted Therapy?
This week, the company formerly known as MAPS PBC—Lykos Therapeutics—announced that the FDA will start the review process for MDMA-Assisted Therapy in June. From the Lykos Press Release:on June 4, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (“PDAC”) will review data...
25 Apr Phenomenology Is the New Psychology
If you’ve been following along here over the last few months, the theme of The Trip Report has been “Emergent Paradigms.” I like to think of this ‘season’ of the newsletter as a high-level survey of scientific findings, technologies, novel trends, and newly emerging ways of...
11 Apr The Body (Electric) Keeps the Score
If you’ve been following along here over the last few months, the theme of The Trip Report has been “Emergent Paradigms.” I like to think of this ‘season’ of the newsletter as a high-level survey of scientific findings, technologies, novel trends, and newly emerging ways of...
29 Mar This is Your Mitochondria on Psychedelics
“It makes more sense to think of mitochondria as the information processors of the cell… They are equipped with a surprisingly wide variety of receptors to sense what’s going on in the cell, they integrate all this information, and they then tell the nucleus and...
15 Mar What We Talk About When We Talk About Neuroplasticity
“Because we reason in terms of metaphor, the metaphors we use determine a great deal about how we live our lives.” —George LakoffIn 2007, Norman Doidge, a Canadian psychiatrist, published a book that would go on to become a New York Times bestseller, The Brain...
01 Mar Notes on Emergent Paradigms Part III: The Predictive Mind Hypothesis
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16 Feb Notes on Emergent Paradigms Part II: The Contemplative Renaissance
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02 Feb Notes on Emergent Paradigms: Part 1
Before we dive in, please fill out the below brief reader survey—it takes 60 seconds—to help us better understand what you like and would like to see more of from The Trip Report in 2024!The Trip Report Reader SurveyThis is the first in a new...