Science Publications |The Beckley Foundation

The Beckley Foundation is one of the few organisations in the world that initiates and directs scientific research into cannabis and the psychedelics. Over 70 papers, arranged here in reverse chronological order, have been published in influential scientific journals as a result of Amanda Feilding’s collaborative projects.

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Inter-individual variability in neural response to low doses of LSD

Translational Psychiatry, 2024

Psilocybin induces acute and persisting alterations in immune status in healthy volunteers: An experimental, placebo-controlled study

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2023

Potential analgesic effects of psychedelics on select chronic pain conditions: A survey study

European Journal of Pain

Cortical Correlates of Psychedelic-Induced Shaking Behaviour Revealed by Voltage Imaging

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023

LSD and language: Decreased structural connectivity, increased semantic similarity, changed vocabulary in healthy individuals

European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022

Analgesic potential of macrodoses and microdoses of classical psychedelics in chronic pain sufferers: a population survey

British Journal of Pain, 2022

Nootropic effects of LSD: Behavioral, molecular and computational evidence

Experimental Neurology, 2022

LSD, afterglow and hangover: Increased episodic memory and verbal fluency, decreased cognitive flexibility

European Neurospsychopharmacology, 2022

LSD and creativity: Increased novelty and symbolic thinking, decreased utility and convergent thinking

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2022

Low‑dose LSD and the stream of thought: Increased Discontinuity of Mind, Deep Thoughts and abstract flow

Psychopharmacology, 2021

LSD, madness and healing: Mystical experiences as possible link between psychosis model and therapy model

Psychological Medicine, 2021

The Shipibo Ceremonial Use of Ayahuasca to Promote Well-Being: An Observational Study

Frontiers in Psychopharmacology, 2021

Spontaneous and deliberate creative cognition during and after psilocybin exposure

Translational Psychiatry, 2021

Self-blinding citizen science to explore psychedelic microdosing

eLife, 2021

Mood and cognition after administration of low LSD doses in healthy volunteers: A placebo controlled dose-effect finding study

European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of lysergic acid diethylamide microdoses in healthy participants

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2020

Low Doses of LSD Acutely Increase BDNF Blood Plasma Levels in Healthy Volunteers

ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 2020

A low dose of lysergic acid diethylamide decreases pain perception in healthy volunteers

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2020

Me, myself, bye: regional alterations in glutamate and the experience of ego dissolution with psilocybin

Nature – Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020

Acute effects of MDMA on trust, cooperative behaviour and empathy: A double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2020

Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression: an open-label feasibility study

Lancet Psychiatry, 2016

The Serotonin 2A Receptor Agonist 25CN-NBOH Increases Murine Heart Rate and Neck-Arterial Blood Flow in a Temperature-Dependent Manner

Journal of Psychopharamcology, 2020

Therapeutic potential of ayahuasca in grief: a prospective, observational study

Psychopharmacology, 2020

Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG

Nature – Scientific Reports, 2019

Dissociable effects of cannabis with and without cannabidiol on the human brain's resting-state functional connectivity

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2019

Dynamical exploration of the repertoire of brain networks at rest is modulated by psilocybin

NeuroImage, 2019

Effects of psilocybin therapy on personality structure

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2019

DMT Models the Near-Death Experience

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018

Natural speech algorithm applied to baseline interview data can predict which patients will respond to psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression

Journal of Affective Disorders, 2018

The hidden therapist: Evidence for a central role of music in psychedelic therapy

Psychopharmacology, 2018

Increased nature relatedness and decreased authoritarian political views after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2018

Quality of Acute Psychedelic Experience Predicts Therapeutic Efficacy of Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018

Psilocybin with psychological support improves emotional face recognition in treatment-resistant depression

Psychopharmacology, 2017

Altered Insula connectivity under MDMA

Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017

Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms

2017, Scientific Reports

Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression: six-month follow-up

Psychopharmacology , 2017

Connectome-harmonic decomposition of human brain activity reveals dynamical repertoire re-organization under LSD

Scientific Reports, 2017

Increased amygdala responses to emotional faces after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression

Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017

LSD modulates effective connectivity and neural adaptation mechanisms in an auditory oddball paradigm

Neuropharmacology, 2017

Assessing the Psychedelic "After-Glow" in Ayahuasca Users: Post-Acute Neurometabolic and Functional Connectivity Changes Are Associated with Enhanced Mindfulness Capacities

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017

Semantic activation in LSD: evidence from picture naming

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016

The paradoxical psychological effects of LSD

Psychological Medicine, 2016

LSD-induced entropic brain activity predicts subsequent personality change

Human Brain Mapping, 2016

Decreased mental time travel to the past correlates with default-mode network disintegration under LSD

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2016

LSD alters eyes-closed functional connectivity within the early visual cortex in a retinotopic fashion

Human Brain Mapping, 2016

Neural correlates of the LSD experience revealed by multimodal neuroimaging

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2016

Increased global functional connectivity correlates with LSD-induced ego dissolution

Current Biology, 2016

LSD modulates music-induced imagery via changes in parahippocampal connectivity – European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016

European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016

A placebo-controlled investigation of synaesthesia-like experiences under LSD

Neuropsychologia, 2016

Inhibition of alpha oscillations through serotonin 2A receptor activation underlies the visual effects of ayahuasca in humans

European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016

Exploring the therapeutic potential of Ayahuasca: acute intake increases mindfulness-related capacities.

Psychopharmacology, 2016

Ayahuasca: Pharmacology, neuroscience and therapeutic potential

Brain Research Bulletin, 2016

The Effects of Acutely Administered 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine on Spontaneous Brain Function in Healthy Volunteers Measured with Arterial Spin Labeling and Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent Resting State Functional Connectivity

Biological Psychiatry, 2014

Recreational 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA) or 'ecstasy' and self-focused compassion: Preliminary steps in the development of a therapeutic psychopharmacology of contemplative practices

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2015

Finding the self by losing the self: Neural correlates of ego dissolution under psilocybin

Human Brain Mapping, 2015

Psychedelic Research At The Frontiers Of Prohibition: Moving Forwards

Journal of Transpersonal Research, 2015

Long-term use of psychedelic drugs is associated with differences in brain structure and personality in humans

European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2015

LSD enhances suggestibility in healthy volunteers

Psychopharmacology, 2015

LSD-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety associated with a life-threatening disease: A qualitative study of acute and sustained subjective effects

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2015

LSD enhances the emotional response to music

Psychopharmacology, 2015

Enhanced repertoire of brain dynamical states during the psychedelic experience

Human brain mapping, 2014

Pilot study of the 5-HT2AR agonist psilocybin in the treatment of tobacco addiction

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2014

Psilocybin-Occasioned Mystical Experiences in the Treatment of Tobacco Addiction

Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 2014

Safety and efficacy of lysergic acid diethylamide-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety associated with life-threatening diseases

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2014

The effects of psilocybin and MDMA on between-network resting state functional connectivity in healthy volunteers

Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014

The effect of acutely administered MDMA on subjective and BOLD-fMRI responses to favourite and worst autobiographical memories

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2014

A qualitative report on the subjective experience of intravenous psilocybin administered in an FMRI environment

Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 2014

Homological scaffolds of brain functional networks

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2014

The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014

Functional connectivity measures after psilocybin inform a novel hypothesis of early psychosis

Schizophrenia bulletin, 2013

Broadband cortical desynchronization underlies the human psychedelic state

The Journal of Neuroscience, 2013

Harms and benefits associated with psychoactive drugs: findings of an international survey of active drug users

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2013

Cannabidiol inhibits THC-elicited paranoid symptoms and hippocampal-dependent memory impairment

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2013

Communication breakdown: delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol effects on pre-speech neural coherence

Molecular psychiatry, 2012

Cognitive and subjective effects of mephedrone and factors influencing use of a 'new legal high'

Addiction, 2012

Investigating the interaction between schizotypy, divergent thinking and cannabis use

Consciousness and cognition, 2012

Implications for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: functional magnetic resonance imaging study with psilocybin

The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2012

Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2012

The administration of psilocybin to healthy, hallucinogen-experienced volunteers in a mock-functional magnetic resonance imaging environment: a preliminary investigation of tolerability

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2010

Does intravenous Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol increase dopamine release? A SPET study

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2011

Neurophysiological correlates to psychological trait variables in experienced meditative practitioners

Neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality, 2011

Meditation induced cortical oscillatory modulations: A MEG case study

2011

Disruption of Frontal Theta Coherence by Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol is Associated with Positive Psychotic Symptoms

Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011

Investigating the mechanisms of hallucinogen-induced visions using 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA): a randomized controlled trial in humans

PloS one, 2010

Interhemisphere asymmetry of the CSF dynamics and biomechanical properties of the skull

Rossiiskii fiziologicheskii zhurnal imeni IM Sechenova, 2010

The non-hallucinogen 2-bromo-lysergic acid diethylamide as preventative treatment for cluster headache: An open, non-randomized case series

Cephalalgia:an international journal of headache, 2010

Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol disruption of time perception and of self-timed actions

Pharmacopsychiatry, 2010

Opposite Effects of Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol on Human Brain Function and Psychopathology

Neuropsychopharmacology, 2010

Slow-wave oscillations in the craniosacral space: a hemoliquorodynamic concept of origination

Neuroscience and behavioral physiology, 2009

Biomechanical properties of the human cranium: aging aspects

Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology/Zhurnal Evoluitsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2008

The effect of craniotomy on the intracranial hemodynamics and cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in humans

Human Physiology/Fisiologiia Cheloveka, 2008

Age-related characteristics of relationships between brain blood flow, liquor dynamics and biomechanical properties of human cranium

Rossiiskii fiziologicheskii zhurnal imeni IM Sechenova, 2007

Age-related peculiarities of ratio of parameters of functioning of hemo- and liquorodynamics systems

Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology, 2006

Reviving research into psychedelic drugs

Lancet, 2006

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