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NIHR: Recrutamento para o ensaio clínico de Psicoterapia Assistida por Ketamina para alcoolismo

O maior ensaio de sempre a investigar se a Psicoterapia Assistida por Ketamina pode ajudar as pessoas com adicção de álcool, feito em parceria entre o NIHR (o Instituto Nacional para a Investigação em Saúde e Cuidados do Reino Unido) e o Medical Research Council, e conduzido pela Universidade de Exeter, está neste momento a recrutar participantes.

"Público": Ketamine is already being used in five hospitals to treat treatment-resistant depression

It has been used to treat treatment-resistant depression in Portugal for about four years. São João already offers ketamine-assisted therapy.

“SAPO”: What happens to our brain during a psychedelic trip? Neuroscientist David Nutt’s answer

What happens in the brain during a psychedelic trip remains one of the great unanswered questions in neuroscience, although we know much more now than we did 15 years ago. British neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt sheds light on this issue in the excerpt we’re publishing from his book *Psychedelics*.

«Financial Times»: Podem os psicadélicos ser a solução para a depressão laboral?

This drug is being provided to workers through company health insurance as the popularity of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy grows.

“Vice”: I went through psychotherapy using psychedelics, and this is how it went.

“One thing that was really important to me was feeling more present in my body and in my life throughout the entire process. I had never felt such clarity, and, like most people, I had never spent four weeks so intensely focused on understanding myself and improving myself.”

«New Scientist»: A improvável transformação de um medicamento psicadélico em tratamento para a saúde mental.

Driven by impressive clinical trials, some companies are offering this type of therapy as a health benefit for their employees - but what are the risks of this growing popularity?

«The Standard»: Negar o acesso aos psicadélicos é como negar o acesso à vacina da Covid-19.

Neuropsychopharmacologist and former government medicines official Professor David Nutt has become one of the leading scientists defending the right to psychedelic medicine for mental health. In this interview, he explains that the time to legalize is now.

"The Economist": A new treatment for traumatized Ukrainian soldiers: ketamine.

This drug has been authorized in Ukraine as a treatment for mental illness since 2017. But now soldiers with war trauma are being treated with ketamine to "relieve emotional pressure".