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Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell on the Importance of Psychedelics in 2012
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The Incredible Future of Medicine
21 12 2011We live in dramatic times.
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The Ayahuasca Project
4 12 2011Definitely watch and share this trailer for a gorgeous looking documentary about ayahuasca shamanism, science and it’s use in treating Westerners afflicted with addictions and severe emotional traumas, as pioneered by the work of two doctors; Dr. Jacques Mabit, who “runs a legendary detox centre deep in the Peruvian jungle”and Dr. Gabor Maté, a lionhearted addiction specialist valiantly trying to establish a similar program in Canada. It is seeking completion funding on KickStarter so if you like the trailer please learn more by watching the Kickstarter video.
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The New Cybernetics
4 12 2011Editor in chief of WIRED magazine, Chris Anderson speaks @ TEDx Silicon Valley 2011 and shares some incredibly thought-provoking futures combining distributed sensorial networks and statistical data analysis for health, self-improvement and scientific research.
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Father Secretly Gives Cannabis to Cancer-Stricken Toddler Son While in Hospital
21 11 2011Our government says that anyone using or recommending this herb should be in prison or otherwise have their life destroyed.
At least 12,000 years of doctors, healers and humans in general have called the same herb a sacred, miraculous medicine and spiritual tool.
Check out this touching report from ABC News.
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Tags: cancer, medical marijuana
Categories : cannabis, drug-laws / drug-politics, health, video
“Deadly Monopolies”: Bio-colonialsm and medical corporatism: organism, gene and human tissue patents.
20 11 2011Watch or listen to the 45 minute interview here.
From Democracy Now:
One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. Our guest, Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent to which what she calls the medical-industrial complex has come to control human life. In the past 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone—many more patents are pending. Washington argues that the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies patenting these genes are more concerned with profit than with the health or medical needs of patients. Her new book is called “Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.”
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Categories : society, science, botany, biology, nature, rainforest, poltics, pharmaceuticals, ecology, economy, health, ayahuasca
Open Science Summit Videos
17 11 2011Videos of presentations from the 2011 Open Science Summit can be viewed at Fora TV.
Wonderfully juicy topics include open source drug discovery, big data bioinformatics, ‘clinical trials 2.0′, open science education, open access science journalism, personal genomics, radical longevity, transparency in science, incentive and intellectual property: FORA.TV
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Mom Shares Psychedelic Drugs with Dying Daughter
12 11 2011After reading this lovely review by David Jay Brown of Honor Thy Daughter, I’m definitely adding this to my reading list.
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Scientists transform liver cells directly into neurons by turning on only 3 genes
7 10 2011A breakthrough. No Stem Cells Required.
Fully mature liver cells from laboratory mice have been transformed directly into functional neurons by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The switch was accomplished with the introduction of just three genes and did not require the cells to first enter a pluripotent state. It is the first time that cells have been shown to leapfrog from one fundamentally different tissue type to another.
Read article at medicalxpress.com
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New John Hopkins psilocybin paper published in Journal of Psychopharmacology
29 09 2011Media coverage:
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ABC News Want to Be More Open-Minded? Magic Mushrooms Found to Help
CBS News Magic mushrooms improve personality? What study says
LiveScience ‘Magic Mushrooms’ May Permanently Alter Personality
Science Daily ‘Single Dose of ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Hallucinogen May Create Lasting Personality Change, Study Suggests’
TIME ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Can Improve Psychological Health Long Term
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KA MacLean, MW Johnson, and RR Griffiths. 2011. “Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness.“ Journal of Psychopharmacology, 29 Sept.
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A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin occasions personally and spiritually significant mystical experiences that predict long-term changes in behaviors, attitudes and values. In the present report we assessed the effect of psilocybin on changes in the five broad domains of personality – Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Consistent with participant claims of hallucinogen-occasioned increases in aesthetic appreciation, imagination, and creativity, we found significant increases in Openness following a high-dose psilocybin session. In participants who had mystical experiences during their psilocybin session, Openness remained significantly higher than baseline more than 1 year after the session. The findings suggest a specific role for psilocybin and mystical-type experiences in adult personality change.
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Visual brain activity reconstructed using fMRI and Youtube
23 09 2011This was the technology portrayed in the 6th season episode of House entitled Black Hole.
The potential of it is staggering.
From description:
The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video. (In brief, the algorithm processes each of the 18 million clips through the brain model, and identifies the clips that would have produced brain activity as similar to the measured brain activity as possible. The clips used to fit the model, those used to test the model and those used to reconstruct the stimulus were entirely separate.) Brain activity was sampled every one second, and each one-second section of the viewed movie was reconstructed separately.
For a related video see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMA23JJ1M1o
For more information about this work, please check our lab web site:http://gallantlab.org
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‘Google Body’ anatomy interface
20 09 2011Navigable, interactive human anatomy atlas by Google. It will be wonderful when the detail is all filled in down to a cellular level, but you can already zoom in pretty close. click the following link and hold down the minus (zoom out) button on the upper left.
>>> Google Body
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