ALPS Podcast on Psychedelic Science
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -More info on http://www.alpsconference.com
ALPS (Awareness Lectures on Psychedelic Science) aims to bring together several outstanding researchers and clinicians working with psychedelic substances.
Podcast is both in English and French.
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Rick Doblin - MAPS founder - MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD - Phase 3 Decision by FDA - Alps Conference 2023
October 29, 2023 16:43 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBRick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He founded MAPS in 1986 and is considered the godfather of the current psychedelic renaissance. Rick studied with Dr. Stanislav Grof and was among the first to be certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for pe...
Michael Mithoefer - Clinical trial testing of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy - Alps Conference 2023
October 29, 2023 16:29 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBMichael Mithoefer, MD, is a psychiatrist living in Asheville, NC. He and his wife, Annie, completed the first MAPS-sponsored Phase Il clinical trial testing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for crime-related PTSD, and subsequent studies with military veterans, firefighters and police officers, and a pilot study treating couples. He has been Medical Monitor for a series of Phase 2 trials which produced data that led to FDA breakthrough therapy designation. Since 2012 he and Annie have conducted tr...
Vanja Palmers - Zen Monk - Interview on Meditation and Psychedelics - Alps Conference 2023
October 29, 2023 16:18 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBVanja Palmers was born in Austria and grew up in Switzerland. His career as a student at the University of Zürich and as the founder of a successful business start up came to a sudden halt when he ingested a few micrograms of a certain fungi derivative aka LSD. After a few years of being a Hippie and a Yogi, he ended up becoming a Zen person, specializing in being nobody special, making effort towards effortless, traceless praxis…. with mediocre success - Felsentor and Puregg (two meditati...
Abigail Calder - Interview on understanding negative effects from psychedelics - Alps Conference 2023
October 29, 2023 16:09 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MBAbigail Calder is a PhD candidate at the University in Fribourg, Switzerland, where she heads a research project on the effects of LSD on neuroplasticity in healthy people. She also conducts research into the adverse effects of psychedelics and their underlying causes, as well as psychedelics’ effects on people’s values and well-being, and she recently joined the ALPS Foundation as its research coordinator. She completed her Master’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Bonn and holds...
Interview with Dr. Ben Sessa on Psychedelic Medicine and the Future of Psychiatry
February 20, 2023 07:38 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThis interview was recorded on 16.02.2023 for the ALPS Podcast on Psychedelic Science. More info on the ALPS Foundation - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube For over 15 years Dr. Ben Sessa has been at the forefront of psychedelic research in the UK through his affiliations with Imperial College London. He has worked for 30 years with patients in the field of addictions and trauma-related psychiatry. Ben has taken part in many psychedelics-related research projects at Bristo...
Psychedelics in the treatment of substance use disorder by Nathalie Rieser at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 19:57 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBThis talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 30.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Nathalie Rieser has a background in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience, having done her Master’s Thesis on the effects of n-Acetylcysteine in cocaine users at the University of Zurich. Her work spanned cognitive psychology, comparative linguistics, and addiction, which eventually led her...
Can psychedelics provide insights into consciousness by Christopher Timmermann at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 19:43 - 56 minutes - 78 MBThis talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 30.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Christopher Timmermann (PhD) has a background in psychology and cognitive neuroscience and is currently a researcher based at Center for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. He leads neuroimaging research on potent effects of DMT on the human brain and consciousness, focusing hi...
What makes a psychoactive substance suitable for psychotherapy by Professor Torsten Passie at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 17:50 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBThis talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 30.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Professor Torsten Passie (MD, PhD) studied philosophy and sociology at Leibniz University Hannover and medicine at Hannover Medical School. Medical dissertation on existential psychiatry. Education at Zürich Psychiatric University Clinic and with Prof. Hanscarl Leuner (1921-1996), the leadi...
Dosing psychedelics and potential drug-drug interactions by Professor Matthias Liechti at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 17:23 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBThis interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Matthias Liechti is a professor of clinical pharmacology and internal medicine at the University Hospital Basel. With his psychopharmacology research team he investigates the pharmacology of psychoactive substances both in vitro and in humans. The team also conducts Pharmaco-fMRI stu...
Psychedelics as nature connection catalysts by Sam Gandy at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 16:43 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThis interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Sam Gandy is a PhD ecologist, independent researcher, consultant and science writer. Sam has varied experience of working within the psychedelic field, as a past scientific assistant to the director of the Beckley Foundation, as a research assistant with the Synthesis Institute, and ...
Interview with Sam Gandy on psychedelics as nature connection catalysts at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 14:56 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBThis interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Sam Gandy is a PhD ecologist, independent researcher, consultant and science writer. Sam has varied experience of working within the psychedelic field, as a past scientific assistant to the director of the Beckley Foundation, as a research assistant with the Synthesis Institute, and...
Microdosing psychedelics as a future therapeutic tool? by Kim Kuypers at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 14:38 - 1 hour - 84 MBThis talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Kim PC Kuypers is affiliated as an Associate Professor with Maastricht University, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her research has three pillars. The main goal is to understand the neurobiology underlying flexible cognition, empathy and well-being. To accomplish this goal she u...
Psychedelic and MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for Addictions by Dr. Ben Sessa at the Alps Conference 2022
October 30, 2022 14:23 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBThis talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube For over 15 years Dr Ben Sessa has been at the forefront of psychedelic research in the UK through his affiliations with Imperial College London. He has worked for 30 years with patients in the field of addictions and trauma-related psychiatry. Ben has taken part in many psychedelics-rel...
Ayahuasca & analogues – Effects on the relationship to oneself and others by Helena Aicher
October 30, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 98.9 MBThis talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube With a main academic background in Psychology, Helena Aicher has been working in the last years in the Psychedelic Research and Therapy Development team at the UZH. Her research focus is on the neurophysiological and subjective effects of ayahuasca & analogues on therapy-relevant processe...
Interview on Ayahuasca and analogues with researcher Helena Aicher
October 30, 2022 08:21 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBThis interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube With a main academic background in Psychology, Helena Aicher has been working in the last years in the Psychedelic Research and Therapy Development team at the UZH. Her research focus is on the neurophysiological and subjective effects of ayahuasca & analogues on therapy-relevant pr...
Psychedelic Psycholytic Therapy - the Switzerland History with Professor Torsten Passie
October 29, 2022 16:29 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Professor Torsten Passie (MD, PhD) studied philosophy and sociology at Leibniz University Hannover and medicine at Hannover Medical School. Medical dissertation on existential psychiatry. Education at Zürich Psychiatric University Clinic and with Prof. Hanscarl Leuner (1921-1996), ...
Rick Doblin from MAPS on MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD at the Alps Conference 2022
October 29, 2022 12:55 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Rick Doblin is an Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (@MAPS). More info on Rick : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Doblin https://twitter.com/rickdoblin
Alps Conference 2022 - Day 1 Recap
October 29, 2022 12:27 - 12 minutes - 16.5 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Recap from Day 1 with Ben and Michael.
Metaphysics and Psychedelic Research by Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes at the Alps Conference 2022
October 29, 2022 09:36 - 1 hour - 85 MBThis presentation was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Whitehead, and in fields pertaining to altered and panpsychological states of consciousness. He is a research fellow and associate lecturer at the University...
Indigenous medicine tradition : the case for tobacco by Dr. Ilana Berlowitz at the Alps Conference 2022
October 29, 2022 08:37 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Dr. Ilana Berlowitz has a PhD in clinical and health psychology, currently working at the Universities of Bern and Zurich. She specializes in traditional/indigenous uses of psychoactive substances, currently researching therapeutic applications of the tobacco plant as per Indigenous...
Alps Conference 2022 Opening Talk by Federico Seragnoli
October 29, 2022 08:27 - 51 minutes - 70.1 MBThis opening talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Federico Seragnoli is one of the co-founder of the Alps Conference for awareness lectures on psychedelic science. More information on the Alps on https://www.alpsconference.com and https://www.alps.foundation
Interview with Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes on Metaphysics and Psychedelic Research at the Alps Conference 2022
October 29, 2022 05:06 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Whitehead, and in fields pertaining to altered and panpsychological states of consciousness. He is a research fellow and associate lecturer at the University ...
Philosophie et Psychédéliques avec le Professeur Florian Cova
June 21, 2022 14:50 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBDiscussion sur le lien entre psychologie des émotions, philosophie et expérience psychédélique avec le professeur Florian Cova. Nous nous excusons pour la mauvaise qualité du son de l'interlocuteur. Le problème sera réglé pour le prochain podcast, merci de votre compréhension.
Retour à la Conférence ALPS et objectifs pour 2022 avec Federico Seragnoli et Cyril Petignat
February 15, 2022 16:38 - 32 minutes - 27.9 MBFederico Seragnoli Psychologue FSP et Coordinateur de ALPS 2021 et Cyril Petignat étudiant en psychologie et membre organisateur de ALPS reviennent sur la conférence ALPS d’octobre 2021 et nous partagent quelle va être la suite de l’aventure pour 2022 Cette discussion a été enregistrée en Suisse le mercredi 02.02.2022. Pour plus d'info sur la Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
Meditation and Psychedelic States with Dr. Franz X. Vollenweider at the Alps Conference
October 31, 2021 12:49 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 31.10.2021. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube We discuss with a worldwide pioneer of psychedelic research, Dr. Franz X. Vollenweider. He is currently Co-Director of the Center for Psychiatric Research and Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of Zurich. He is also the Director of the Heffter Resea...
Scientific Advisory Board member of the Alps Conference Nicolas Bertholet
October 31, 2021 11:37 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 31.10.2021. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Nicolas Bertholet is a MD, specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (FMH); specialist in Prevention and Public Health (FMH) at Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (Unil)
Science of ayahuasca by Jeremy Narby at Alps Conference 2021
October 31, 2021 09:20 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MBJeremy Narby is an anthropologist who has worked for the last 31 years raising funds and advocating for indigenous Amazonian initiatives. He has also written several books, including "The cosmic serpent: DNA and the origins of knowledge" and "Intelligence in nature". This conference was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 29.10.2021. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Abstract:...
Psychedelic research with Professor Gregor Hasler at Alps Conference 2021
October 30, 2021 17:46 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 30.10.2021. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Gregor Hasler, M.D. was born in Basel, Switzerland. He is a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Dr. Hasler is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is the presiden...
Psychedelic renaissance with Peter Gasser at Alps Conference 2021
October 30, 2021 17:41 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBThis discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 30.10.2021. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Peter Gasser DR. MD is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, working in his own practice in Solothurn, Switzerland. He was trained in psychodynamic methods as well as in psychedelic therapy. He has been a member of the Swiss Medical Society for Psycholytic Therapy (SAePT) since 1...
Ayahuasca avec l'anthropologue Jeremy Narby à la Alps Conference 2021 (FRENCH)
October 30, 2021 17:34 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBJeremy Narby est un anthropologue qui travaille depuis 31 ans à défendre les initiatives indigènes amazoniennes. Il a également écrit plusieurs livres, dont Le serpent cosmique. Il vient de sortir un nouveau livre Deux Plantes enseignantes: Le Tabac & l'Ayahuasca Pour plus d'info sur la Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube
Champignons hallucinogènes et les etudes du professeur Roger Heim avec Vincent Verroust à la Alps Conference 2021 (FRENCH)
October 30, 2021 07:22 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBCette discussion a été enregistrée à la Alps Conférence 2021 à Lausanne en Suisse le vendredi 29.10.2021. Pour plus d'info sur la Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Vincent Verroust est doctorant en histoire des sciences en France et consultant à l'hôpital Paul Brousse pour la reprise des essais cliniques sur les substances contrôlées. Il est également enseignant et membre fondateur de la société française de psychédélisme. Cette discussion fait sui...
MDMA and LSD assisted therapy with Peter Oehen at Alps Conference 2021
October 30, 2021 07:14 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MBThis interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2021 on psychedelic research in Lausanne, Switzerland on 29.10.2021. The discussion is with Peter Oehen, MD, Psychiatrist at University of Basel, SÄPT member, Head researcher for the Swiss MAPS program following his presentation on "Substance-Assisted Psychotherapy with MDMA and LSD: Working with a group therapy model"- More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube