Haley Maria Dourron
@HDourron
PhD @ UAB | Postdoc @ Linköping | Psychs & Psychosis - interdisciplinary | Self-experience w/ 🧠 🍄 | founder of @furthure707 & psychedelx | 🇺🇸 → Sweden
Coming this Friday... I'll probably post the slides after the defense too. I have spent way too much time on them 😅
I have been thinking this for years! So glad someone finally studied this ✨✨
"Participants from raves and ceremonies reported equivalent mental health improvements."
Here's a way to access the paper: researchgate.net/publication/39…
Psychedelics are typically thought not to mix well with a history of psychotic disorders, but we conducted a survey-based study to examine if some symptoms were more impacted than others….with some surprising results liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ps…
This silly duck just ran 26.2 miles. I was 9 minutes slower than my goal of 4:19 but it’ll do. Now time to get that “other a marathon” done 🧠⚡️
This one's a great one for scientists to listen to for thinking about how to both best teach the public about their research and also learn from their audiences.
@emmsskyyy talks about studying psych use "in the wild," the power of science communication, what psychonauts are actually most curious about, and—surprisingly—how childbirth can be a blissful, psych-like experience, based on her recent case report. open.spotify.com/episode/78FxPr…
Anyone, myself included until *very* recently, who thinks you can just compare "average" first episode psychosis to other "altered states" is very wrong. FEP is so heterogeneous that an average comparison is not meaningful. early psychosis: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…