The Psychedelic Brain

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A Biobehavioral Evolutionary Approach to Psychedelics

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The Psychedelic Brain: A Biobehavioral Evolutionary Approach to Psychedelics provides an up to date volume on the diverse effects that psychedelics have on the brain, experience, cognition, emotions, and treatment-resistant diseases. This volume provides biological and behavioral understandings of the significance of psychedelics across human evolution and their traditional and contemporary uses as therapies. The research presented offers interdisciplinary perspectives from neuropharmacology, clinical science, cross-cultural studies, and phenomenological research to provide readers with both classic and cutting-edge findings and a paradigmatic framework for future research into their mechanisms and applications.

Offers interdisciplinary integration of knowledge about psychedelics from neurology, clinical, and evolutionary sciences to psychology and anthropology
Enables us to understand how the neurological effects are related to the experiences produced by psychedelics
Combines neurology, clinical sciences, and the social sciences to highlight how to optimize psychedelic medicine

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-01
Mått216 x 276 x undefined mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor300
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780443445545

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Michael J. Winkelman (Ph.D. University of California-Irvine; M.P.H. from University of Arizona) is retired from Arizona State University. Winkelman served as President of the Anthropology of Consciousness and Anthropology of Religion Sections of the American Anthropological Association. Winkelman has engaged in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism, psychedelics, and the alteration of consciousness for 40 years.

Part I: Psychedelics, Brain Networks, and the Selves1. Introduction to the Psychedelic Brain: Updating the REBUS Model of Psychedelic Experiences2. Psychedelic Effects on Sensory Networks and their Effects on Global Brain Networks3. Psychedelic Action on Major Brain Networks4. The Self Structures in Consciousness and PsychedelicsPart II: The Evolutionary Origins of the Psychedelic Brain5. Psilocybin and the Environments of Evolved Adaptation6. The Evolved Hominin Brain: Vision, Sociality and Symbols7. The Evolution of Ritual Set and SettingPart III: The Phenomenologies and Neurophenomenology of Psychedelic Experience8. The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience9. The Nature of Consciousness and Altered Consciousness10. The Psychobiology of the Alteration of Consciousness11. Psychedelics and ConsciousnessPart IV: How Do Psychedelics Heal?12. Shamanic Ritual Healing: ASC, Set and Setting13. Entheogenic Healing Practices: Tradition and Survivals14. The Evolved Psychology of Entheogenic Healing15. Mechanisms of Psychedelic Healing: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesPart V: Theory and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Psychedelic Experience16. A Psychedelic Epistemology and Neurophenomenology17. The Meanings of Psychedelic Experiences and Healing