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Neuroscience research sheds light on ketamine's strange effect on our sense of touch
Researchers found that ketamine blurs the brain’s ability to distinguish between self- and other-produced touch, particularly in a brain area involved in social…
Source: PsyPost - Psychology News

Wondering How To Get A Song Out Of Your Head? Meet The Earworm Eraser
...the “Earworm Eraser,” a track released by Atlassian that brought together Durham University music psychologist Dr Kelly Jakubowski and audio engineers to create “a scientifically-engineered track designed to get rid of earworms for good”...
Source: IFLScience

Scientists Asked People To Do 1 Thing Differently While Taking A Walk. The Results Were Astounding
...“One region of the brain is deactivated [when we experience awe] — the default mode network. That is where all the self-representational processes take place: I’m thinking about myself, my time, my goals, my strivings, my checklist. That quiets down during awe.” ... Awe activates our vagus nerve. That’s “the big bundle of nerves starting in the top of your spinal cord that helps you look at people and vocalize,” ... and it also “slows our heart rate, helps with digestion and opens up our bodies to things bigger than us.”“Awe also cools down the inflammation process,” Keltner said his studies have shown. “It’s part of your immune system that attacks diseases"...
Source: HuffPost

‘This is medicine’: inside the psilocybin retreat for US first responders
"Amid a US mental health crisis, police officers, firefighters and paramedics are flying to Mexico for treatments they say are transformative"...
Source: The Guardian

The psychedelic renaissance and the limitations of a White-dominant medical framework: A call for indigenous and ethnic minority inclusion
... "The scientific progress and clinical promise of this movement owes much of its success to the history of indigenous healing practices; yet the work of indigenous people, ethnic and racial minorities, women, and other disenfranchised groups is often not supported or highlighted in the mainstream narrative of psychedelic medicine." ...
Source: Journal of Psychedelic studies

The Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education at The Ohio State University Launches University-Level Psychedelic Certificate Program for Non-Clinicians
... "The Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education (CPDRE) at The Ohio State University has launched the Certificate in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Studies (CIPS), the first accessible, university-level psychedelic education program designed specifically for non-clinical audiences." ...
Source: PRWeb

With social prescribing, hanging out, movement and arts are doctor's order
... "flipping the script from what's the matter with you to focusing on what matters to you," ... "Health care providers in about 30 countries are doing social prescribing to address symptoms of Type 2 diabetes, chronic pain, dementia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, among others, Hotz says. And a growing number of providers — around 250 so far — in the United States are starting to use them, too" ...
Source: NPR