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SUMMARY:Psychedelics: brain mechanisms - Dr Robin Carhart-Harris\, Imperia
 l College London
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* The talk takes a multi-level approach to the quest
 ion of how psychedelics work in the brain. Key themes include:\n* the phar
 macology of classic serotonergic psychedelics\, \n* what this tells us abo
 ut the function and evolutionary purpose of the serotonin 2A receptor\,\n*
  the acute brain effects of psychedelics as determined by functional brain
  imaging\, \n* the entropic brain hypothesis\, \n* current evidence for ps
 ychedelic therapy\, \n* the new 'REBUS' hierarchical predictive processing
  model of the action of psychedelics\, and \n* how this maps on to the phe
 nomenology of the acute psychedelic experience and therapeutic outcomes.  
 \n\n*Biography:* Dr Robin Carhart-Harris moved to Imperial College London 
 in 2008 after obtaining a PhD in Psychopharmacology from the University of
  Bristol and an MA in Psychoanalysis from Brunel University. At Imperial\,
  Robin has designed and completed human brain imaging studies with LSD\, p
 silocybin\, MDMA and DMT\, a clinical trial of psilocybin for treatment-re
 sistant depression\, a double-blind randomised controlled trial comparing 
 psilocybin with escitalopram for major depressive disorder and a multimoda
 l imaging study in healthy volunteers receiving psilocybin for the first t
 ime. Robin founded the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College
  London in April 2019\, the first of its kind in the world. For more detai
 led\, please visit: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.carhart-harris
LOCATION:Webinar (via Zoom online)
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