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Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans * 1
    #20432212 - 08/17/14 11:00 AM (9 years, 7 months ago)

Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans - and you're next
The scientist talks to Laurence Phelan about fighting the establishment, battling preconceptions and breaking down egos
Laurence Phelan

Sunday 17 August 2014
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On a hot evening in June, in a crowded room above a London pub, Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, a research associate in the Centre for Neuropsychopharma-cology at Imperial College, is giving a public talk about his work. He is having to make himself heard over the boozy commotion downstairs, where people are watching Chile put Spain out of the World Cup. But there is a slightly giddy atmosphere in the function room, too, because the doctor's area of research is as exciting as it is taboo: he is investigating the brain effects and potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs.

Carhart-Harris is the first person in the UK to have legally administered doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to human volunteers since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971, and his presentation climaxes with a slide showing something no one else has seen before: an as-yet unpublished cross-sectional image of the brain of a volunteer who was in an fMRI scanner while tripping on acid. Blobs of colour indicate changes in blood flow, from which can be inferred changes in levels of activity in specific brain regions – notably, in this case, the hippo-campus, which is involved, among other things, in making memories and giving them context.

"We've only looked in six brains so far," says Carhart-Harris when we meet a couple of weeks later in a coffee shop near his flat in Notting Hill. Born in Durham 33 years ago and raised in Bournemouth, he has an indie haircut and looks a bit like he could be the celebrity physicist Brian Cox's cooler younger brother. He is a careful and articulate speaker, but his enthusiasm for his work is evident. "We're at an early, but certainly promising, stage. It's really exciting," he says.

The potential scientific benefits of psychedelics (as distinct from whatever cultural, social, artistic, spiritual or subjectively enjoyable benefits one might also argue they have) fall broadly into two categories. They look like being medicinally or therapeutically useful, and they offer an unconventional view of the workings of the human mind, such that the age-old, so-called "hard problem of consciousness" might be made a little easier. The etymology of the word "psychedelic" is, after all, from the Greek for "mind-revealing".

Plant-derived psychedelics such as mescaline (from the peyote cactus), DMT (from the root of the ayahuasca vine) and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) have been used therapeutically and medicinally for millennia. In 1943, however, Albert Hofmann, a 37-year-old Swiss chemist in the laboratories of the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in Basel, accidentally ingested – through his fingertips – a chemical he had synthesised from the ergot fungus, and became the first person to experience its remarkable mind-altering properties. Interviewed shortly before his 100th birthday, he called LSD "medicine for the soul".

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Re: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans [Re: Simplepowa]
    #20432280 - 08/17/14 11:19 AM (9 years, 7 months ago)

Slow but steady...


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Re: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #20432316 - 08/17/14 11:29 AM (9 years, 7 months ago)

love it, the world will see that LSD can be a gateway to reality , not as we know it but as it is.


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Re: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans [Re: Simplepowa]
    #20435081 - 08/17/14 11:15 PM (9 years, 7 months ago)

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Simplepowa said:
an as-yet unpublished cross-sectional image of the brain of a volunteer who was in an fMRI scanner while tripping on acid. Blobs of colour indicate changes in blood flow, from which can be inferred changes in levels of activity in specific brain regions – notably, in this case, the hippo-campus, which is involved, among other things, in making memories and giving them context.






I can't imagine tripping and going in an MRI machine, but good job in the name of science.

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