PAST: Psychedelic Science & Medicine

DETAILS ABOUT THE SHOW / View Speaker line-up below

We know psychedelics produce powerful mental effects, including intensifying thoughts, feelings, and perceptions while loosening psychological defenses. As chemicals, psychedelics probe connections between brain physiology and consciousness, among contemporary science’s most intriguing arenas.

Psychedelics have been used for millennia by Indigenous cultures to amplify connections between the mind and the world. Modern science has been researching psychedelics for 150 years. Just 70 years ago, psychedelics were one of the driving forces in the early days of biological psychiatry.

However, the widespread recreational use of some of these substances in the 1960s and political realities contributed to strict legal regulation, halting research and most public discussion.

The good news is that easing legal restrictions on psychedelics has allowed for a long-awaited renaissance in researching these Plant medicines. Interest in psychedelic research has now returned to mainstream science, and the peer-reviewed breakthroughs for mental health issues are, in a word, extraordinary. Psychedelic-assisted therapy is becoming a first-line treatment for many hard-to-treat illnesses like addiction, anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, and in end-of-life care.

For our June Salon event @ Angelico Concert Hall on the campus of Dominican University in San Rafael

This will be live and in person only.

SPEAKER PROGRAM

SCIENCE

Andrew Penn

RN, MS, NP, Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco

The State of Research in the Field of Psychedelic Science

The latest research for the use of psychedelics in psychiatric, addiction medicine, and palliative care (medical uses)

LEGAL

NICOLE HOWELL Esq.

Attorney and Founding Board Member of the Psychedelic Bar Association

The Legal Realities and Opportunities in the Field of Psychedelics

What’s legal and what isn’t, the complexity of legalization efforts and lessons (already) learned from early “rush” movers

CONSCIOUSNESS

DAVID E. PRESTI

Professor of biology, psychology, and cognitive science at
UC Berkeley

The Nature of Mind and Consciousness

What Psychedelics may teach us about the Psyche and Consciousness.

TREATMENT

Dr. KWASI ADUSEI

DNP, PMHNP-BC,
Psychiatric Mental
Health Practitioner

The Power of New Narratives during Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Sharing patient’s psychedelic and meaning-making experiences from their assisted therapy sessions

Host

Tim Gnatek

Blue Practice President
TEDxMarin
Executive Board Member

THE PROGRAM
Master of Ceremony

Tim Gnatek is a former NY Times journalist and regular TEDxMarin host. He will reprise his role for our salon and moderate a speaker Q&A after each presentation.

NEXT EVENT

14th Annual
TEDxMarin Filming Event and After-Party

SAVE THE DATE

COMING SATURDAY NIGHT, SEPT 9th, 2023

Be part of the live filming of six original TEDTalks

Tickets will go on sale in late June. Be part of the live filming of six original TEDTalks

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Founded in 1890, Dominican University of California is an independent institution offering more than 60 majors, minors and concentrations. Over our 130 years of we’ve earned a reputation for excellence in academics, research, outreach and community involvement.

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