Psychedelic research lecture, Santa Cruz

Michael A. Ruderman has organized a lecture with neuroscience researcher, Matthew Bagott at the University of Santa Cruz, Friday, March 9th.

Here's the info:
UCSC CAMPUS
March 9th 5:00 P.M.
Physical Science Building Seminar room 240

Psychedelic research in humans? Is that even legal? After decades of regulatory restriction, scientists in the U.S. are again studying psychedelics in humans. In the intervening decades, science has dramatically advanced, with many findings and tools relevant to psychedelics.
While studies using animals and cells have deepened our knowledge, they have done so without lessening our puzzlement. Can scientific research with human volunteers
adequately address the unusual effects of psychedelics?
Matthew Baggott will discuss the challenges of human psychedelic research and what we can hope to learn. He will outline a modest program for research, emphasizing
measurement of phenomenology as an important step and illustrate the approach with preliminary results from his ongoing research.

contact: aspire_core@ucsc.edu