FDA-approved, Cybin-sponsored clinicial trial to measure ketamine’s impact on the brain via Kernel Flow neuroimaging helmet

Kernel’s Brain-Imag­ing Hel­met Approved For Clin­i­cal Tri­al On Patients Using Ket­a­mine (Forbes): The U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion has approved a clin­i­cal tri­al using a neu­roimag­ing hel­met made by Los Ange­les-based Ker­nel to track what hap­pens in the brain when a human takes a psy­che­del­ic dose of ketamine.

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Study finds MDMA-assisted therapy to be safe and highly effective to treat severe PTSD

The First Phase 3 Suc­cess for Psy­che­delics Will Pave the Way for an Indus­try (Bar­ron’s): Post-trau­­mat­ic stress dis­or­der is a crip­pling, hard-to-treat psy­chi­atric afflic­tion. Amer­i­ca spends bil­lions of dol­lars year­ly just on the vet­er­ans who suf­fer from PTSD. So it’s heart­en­ing to see the report of a promis­ing new treat­ment, pub­lished Mon­day in Nature Medicine.

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Sneak preview into the future of mental health: Fully digital clinical trials to study digital therapeutics

——– Click Ther­a­peu­tics™ Reports Pre­lim­i­nary Results of a 416-Par­tic­i­­pant Clin­i­cal Study Demon­strat­ing Excep­tion­al Engage­ment and Effi­ca­cy of Click­o­tine®, a Patent-Pend­ing Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics™ Pro­gram for Smok­ing Ces­sa­tion (press release): “Click Ther­a­peu­tics, Inc. (“Click”), a com­pa­ny devel­op­ing a suite of per­son­al­ized data-dri­ven dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics for chron­ic health con­di­tions, announces today pre­lim­i­nary results of its ful­ly remote clinical…

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Cognitive Training Clinical Trial: Seeking Older Adults

Neu­ro­sci­en­tists at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Med­ical Cen­ter (see our pre­vi­ous inter­view with Yaakov Stern on the Cog­ni­tive Reserve) have asked for help in recruit­ing vol­un­teers for an excit­ing clin­i­cal tri­al. If you are based in New York City, and between the ages of 60 and 75, please con­sid­er join­ing this study. More infor­ma­tion below: ————————— Use it or…

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Sunday Afternoon Quiz

(These are not trick ques­tions) Name the one sport in which nei­ther the spec­ta­tors nor the par­tic­i­pants know the score or the leader until the con­test ends.What famous North Amer­i­can land­mark is con­stant­ly mov­ing backward?Of all veg­eta­bles, only two can live to pro­duce on their own for sev­er­al grow­ing sea­sons.… Can you name at least half of them?Name the only veg­etable or fruit that is nev­er sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any oth­er form except fresh.Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet begin­ning with the let­ter “S.“Click here for the answers.

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