agency, consciousness, altered states, psychedelics
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17 Mar 2024
Our MicroDep study is now recruiting people in Sydney to take part in a 6 week trial of low doses of psilocybin as a potential treatment for moderate depression at @Macquarie_Uni
Email microdep@mq.edu.au to find out more.
Here's a news story on what we're planning.
More below..
17 Mar 2024
#Exclusive: A clinical trial has started looking at how micro-doses of magic mushrooms could be used to help Australians living with depression | @TallulahT_
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8 Nov 2024
while tragic, I hope this incident ultimately leads to a new understanding of automobile psychology
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19 Oct 2024
New research by Wendy Higgins, @VictoriaSavalei, @vincepsy, and me: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores demonstrate poor structural properties in nine large non-clinical samples. osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ey…
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20 Jun 2024
Is microdosing a placebo? @PLiknaitzky and I dive into this tricky question in a new paper just out. We look at all controlled studies and argue that there is not convincing data indicating placebo is the best explanation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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23 Apr 2024
Jake Payne at Swinburne University is investigating the impact of psychedelics on adult development for men.
Details here if you would like to take part
swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe…
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17 Mar 2024
Our MicroDep study is now recruiting people in Sydney to take part in a 6 week trial of low doses of psilocybin as a potential treatment for moderate depression at @Macquarie_Uni
Email microdep@mq.edu.au to find out more.
Here's a news story on what we're planning.
More below..
17 Mar 2024
#Exclusive: A clinical trial has started looking at how micro-doses of magic mushrooms could be used to help Australians living with depression | @TallulahT_
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24 Dec 2023
🎶He knows when you are sleeping,
He knows when you’re awake
He knows when you are inbetween (called the hypnagogic state)🎶
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15 Dec 2023
o end the year, I want to share some very cool podcast interviews that students in our lab gave in 2023. These give a neat overview of approaches that our group takes to study altered states. I'm really proud of these efforts and hope you also find them interesting...
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15 Dec 2023
Abigayle Peterson (@AbbyPetersonX) investigates the impact of altered states on nature relatedness. Here she discusses challenges in measuring different forms of consciousness alterations and the way that these states can lead to ongoing attitude changes.
open.spotify.com/episode/2JH…
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15 Dec 2023
Matthew Downing talks about the future potential of psychedelics as clinical tools, and the importance of psychedelic harm reduction.
open.spotify.com/episode/5qK…
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11 Dec 2023
This study will be closing soon, so a final plug... If you are planning to have a psychedelic experience in the next couple of months please help us out by answering a few questions before and afterwards: bit.ly/MQPSYCHEDELICSTUDY
There's 3 x $100 prizes up for grabs
Thanks!
6 Sep 2023
🍄We're still looking for people planning to take a psychedelic.
If this is you - please join our study investigating how different types of use impact beliefs & wellbeing.
Participants go into a draw to win three $100 AUD gift cards
bit.ly/MQPSYCHEDELICSTUDY
Please share widely!
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11 Dec 2023
Well done Charles!
10 Dec 2023
Congrats to all the @PsyMQ honours students who presented & won prizes at The Australasian Conference of Undergraduate Research!
Charles McKinley - Best Oral Presentation (supervised by @vincepsy)
Alexandra Mruk - Best Poster (supervised by Dick Stevenson)!!
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6 Sep 2023
🍄We're still looking for people planning to take a psychedelic.
If this is you - please join our study investigating how different types of use impact beliefs & wellbeing.
Participants go into a draw to win three $100 AUD gift cards
bit.ly/MQPSYCHEDELICSTUDY
Please share widely!
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17 Aug 2023
Spencer Arbige doing some amazing work here, presenting his PhD research on the role of the hypnotist in online hypnosis to win our School's three-minute-thesis competition.
17 Aug 2023
Congrats to our @PsyMQ #3MT winner Spencer Arbige for the talk Help! The hypnotist has left the building!
Spencer now moves to the next round to represent @PsyMQ at the faculty competition.
We are all cheering you on for the next round!
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4 Jul 2023
I'm on the lineup for Splendour in the Grass... on the coolest stage of all, The Science Tent!
I'll be talking about the weird history of psychedelics on Saturday afternoon, come say hi if you will be there
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27 Jun 2023
Happy to present our research on hypnosis for children's procedural pain and distress with @tyack_z @vincepsy @DevinTerhune @brongriffin at @ESPNIC_Society 2023 conference in Athens and spread awareness about hypnotic pain treatments #espnic2023 #hypnosis
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4 Jun 2023
Is microdosing a placebo?
In this latest paper, @PLiknaitzky and I outline 8 reasons to be skeptical of the claim that the effects of low dose psychedelics are mainly due to beliefs and expectation.
psyarxiv.com/3ykst
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