Psychedemia 2022 Speakers
Outstanding Presentations
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Uma Chatterjee
MDMA-AT, PTSD, & Comorbid OCD: Exploring the potential effects of 3,4-Methyledioxymethamphetamine assisted therapy for PTSD on comorbid OCD.
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Rebecca Krisel
Refreshing the Psychedelic Policy Image: A News and Social Media Sentiment Analysis of the Psychedelic Renaissance.
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Sarah Gorban
The Microbiome: Psychedelics Beyond the Brain, A Call to Research.
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Emily Cribas
A gut feeling: How our intestinal cellular network could bidirectionally shape psychedelics and their therapeutic effects.
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Tahlia Harrison
Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process.
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Robert A. Villa
Toad Smoke: (Un)natural History of Incilius alvarius, the Sonoran Desert Toad.
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Michael V. Kramer
Notes toward a Phenomenological Philosophy of Psychedelics.
Keynote Speakers
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Alicia Danforth
Characters vs Character: Why Truth and Norming Matter in Psychedelics.
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James Peter Davies
A Psychedelic Revolution? No, just more of the same. A socio-political critique.
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William Leonard Pickard
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Yarelix Estrada
Psychedelics, Harm Reduction and Resistance
Panelists
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Adam Levin
Perceptions of Psychoactive Drugs among Psychiatrists in the United States: The Impact of National Drug Policy.
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Alan K. Davis
Psilocybin therapy for people with depression: Clinical trial outcomes and case reports.
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Alyssa Gursky
Capturing the Ineffable: Integrating Art Therapy into Psychedelic Therapy.
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Ana Flecha
Choreographing re-membrance: The Santo Daime bailado and epistemologies of dance in the context of psychedelic science.
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Austin Haigler
Psychedelic Studies: Towards a Nascent Field of Inquiry.
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Brian Pace
From on High: Right-Wing Psychedelia and Mystic Authoritarianism.
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Carli Domenico
SD alterations of sleep architecture and hippocampal activity during cortical slow wave sleep in resting rat.
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Carsten Fisher
Deep Roots: Unveiling the Impact of Systemic Racism in the Medicalization of Psychedelics with Critical Race Praxis.
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Christopher C. Davoli
Lived Experiences with Long-Term Psychedelic Therapy and Healing: What Patients Want Professionals to Know.
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Emily K. Bloesch
Beyond Consultation: A Working Group Approach to De-Siloing Psychedelics Studies.
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Emma Stamm
Acid Communism and Psychedelic Science in the Age of Digital Capitalism.
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Guillermo Orbegoso
Possible contributions of the Expressive Arts methodology to the reduction of risks associated with the use of psychedelic substances.
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Hilary Agro
Prohibitionist Realism: Scenes from the front lines of movements against drug prohibition.
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Isla Weber
Positive vs. negative context mediates the effects of psilocybin on acute anxiety circuit activation and long-term anxiety‑like behaviors in mice.
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J. Christian Greer
Between Stoned Apes & Space Stations: The Psychedelic Militants of the New Age Movement.
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Jacob Green
Hallucinations of the Afterlife during Dental and Surgical Anesthesia as a Challenge to How Mystical Experience is Defined in Psychedelic Therapy.
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Jason Slot
The first trip: origins of psilocybin on Earth.
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José Manuel Rodríguez Arce
Going beyond McKenna’s “stoned ape theory”: testing the Psychedelic Instrumentalization model of human evolution.
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Kai River Blevins
Suspending the Self: Psychedelics, Embodiment, and Minimal Subjectivity.
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Logan Neitzke-Spruill
Embodied Cognition and Psychedelics: Toward a Biocultural Understanding of Set, Setting, and Transformation.
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Marty Otañez
The Transnational Psychedelics Capitalist Class and Its Consequences for Anti-Capitalist Psychedelic Studies.
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Matthew Baggott
Lessons from San Francisco’s Summer of STP.
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Meghan DellaCrosse
“A sense of the bigger picture:” A qualitative analysis of follow-up interviews with people with bipolar disorder who self-reported psilocybin use.
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Michael Lifschitz
Cultivating relationships with invisible beings: From tulpas and tryptamines to speaking in tongues.
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Michael V. Kramer
Notes toward a Phenomenological Philosophy of Psychedelics.
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Neşe Devenot
Psychedelic Identity Shift: A Critical Approach to Set and Setting.
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Parker Singleton
Psychedelics flatten the brain’s energy landscape: insights from receptor-informed network control theory.
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Paul Elias
Critical Reflections on the ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’ and ‘Acid Communism’ from the perspective of Karl Marx’s Social Philosophy.
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Rafaelle Lancelotta
Considerations for Ethical Integration of Psychedelics in Healthcare.
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Robert A. Villa
Toad Smoke: (Un)natural History of Incilius alvarius, the Sonoran Desert Toad.
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Shana Harris
Traveling for Treatment: Accessing Psychedelics and Addiction Care in Mexico.
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Stacey B. Armstrong
Differences in attitudes and beliefs among social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists on psychedelic-assisted therapy.
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Stephanie Schmitz
An Introduction to the Psychoactive Substances Research Collection at the Purdue University Archives.
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Tahlia Harrison
Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process.
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Trace Reddell
Psychedelic Praxis: Integrating Transformational Experiences in the Liberal Arts Classroom.
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Victoria Grace Litman
A Tax Study of Entheogenic Religious Practices in America in 2022: Existing Structures and Future Possibilities (and Problems).
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Vivek Shah
Trip Anxiety: Heidegger’s Existential Analytic in the Phenomenology of Psychedelics.
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Yitong Xin
Psychedelic therapy for United States military Veterans: Prospective data from a clinical program in Mexico.
Flash Talks
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Alexsandra Kovacevich
Cases of reported improvement in anosmia following naturalistic use of classic psychedelics.
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Connor J. Storck
Psychedelic Hermeneutics.
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Daniel J. Kruger
Assessing Psychedelic Knowledge among Psychedelic Enthusiasts.
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Dave Rojas
Ketamine and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in a Low-income Ethnically Diverse Sample: A Phenomenological Study.
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Dustin Theibert
From Gilded Cages to Psychedelic Commons: Mending Patents for Open Science.
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Jamarie Geller
The Use of Psychedelics in Medicine: Are Future Providers, Allied Professionals, and Researchers Being Educated? A Survey Study.
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JoJo Martis
Selective Attention Differences across Altered States of Consciousness.
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Joshua M. Ellow
Clinical Social Workers and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies: A Qualitative Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Professional Response.
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Katrina Dobson
Behavioural Investigations of Psilocybin in Animals, A Scoping Review.
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Nathan Sepeda
The relationship between amygdala response and long-term antidepressant effects after psilocybin therapy.
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Nicolas Glynos
Naturalistic Psychedelic Use: A World Apart From Clinical Care.
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Rebecca Krisel
Refreshing the Psychedelic Policy Image: A News and Social Media Sentiment Analysis of the Psychedelic Renaissance.
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Ronit Kishon
Our science needs to be dosed.
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Sarah Gorban
The Microbiome: Psychedelics Beyond the Brain, A Call to Research.
Posters
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Brian Barnett
Is psychedelic use associated with cancer?: Interrogating a half-century old claim using contemporary population-level data.
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Colin Domnauer
Early Investigations into Unstudied Psychoactive Bolete Mushrooms.
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David Horton
A Systematized Review of the Psychotherapeutic Components of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy.
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Elyse Smith
Psychedelic drug policy reform: A bioethical principlist approach.
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Emily Cribas
A gut feeling: How our intestinal cellular network could bidirectionally shape psychedelics and their therapeutic effects.
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Eric Dobson
Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy for Persistent Depression in Abstinent Opioid Users: Preliminary Data from an Open Label Trial.
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Jeffrey Allen Breau
Spiritual Experiences to Spiritual Lives: Models for Ethical, Life-giving Psychedelic Ministry.
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Natalie Villeneuve
Ways forward in the wake of controversies.
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Russell Hausfeld
From Mining to Mushrooms: Why Are Extractive Industry Executives Speculating On Psychedelics?
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Tara Rodriquez
Use of psychedelic harm reduction strategies among native Spanish-speakers.
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Thomas Daniel Meyer
Exploring the motivation of individuals with Bipolar Disorder for recreational psychedelic use and its effects.
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Uma Chatterjee
MDMA-AT, PTSD, & Comorbid OCD: Exploring the potential effects of 3,4-Methyledioxymethamphetamine assisted therapy for PTSD on comorbid OCD.
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Victor Pablo Acero
A Neurobiological Framework for Psychedelics as Neurotrauma Therapeutics.
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William Campo
Psychedelic Use and Psychological Flexibility: The Role of Decentering and Meaningful Intention.