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Spotlight: Key competencies for psychedelic treatment in real-world mental health care settings (Wolff, et al, 2025)

"To accommodate mainstream adoption of these treatments, the competencies framework we present respects the distinctive contextual and cultural sensitivities of psychedelic care while remaining anchored in established psychotherapeutic, medical, and scientific paradigms."
Michael DeMarco, PhD

by Michael DeMarco, PhD

(2025):"Designed for varied service models, the framework is substance-unspecific (i.e., covering various classical and atypical psychedelic agents) and transtheoretical (i.e., compatible with cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic-experiential, systemic and other psychotherapeutic orientations)."

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The Role of Psychedelics in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: An Overview of Systematic Reviews (Correa de Costa, et al, 2025)

"...evidence suggests that the use of serotonergic and non-serotonergic psychedelics (ketamine) for the treatment of SUD may provide advantages over traditional therapeutics, and these compounds may eventually become part of the next generation of treatments for SUD under specific circumstances."

Spotlight: A long, strange trip: Ketamine treatment in psychiatry (Nutt, et al, 2025)

"...mystical experiences were strongly related to immediate and sustained psychiatric benefits at the group level and on an individual, session-by-session basis across the six doses, providing mechanistic support for ketamine-psychotherapy pairings."

Spotlight: Changing your mind: neuroplastic mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effect of psychedelics in depression, PTSD, and addiction (Palhas, et al, 2025)

"Serotonergic psychedelics & ketamine appear to share common cellular mechanisms. They both recruit glutamatergic neurons to stimulate BDNF-trKB signaling, promoting synaptogenesis via the mTOR pathway. These changes may explain their efficacy in depression, anxiety, PTSD, & addiction."

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Spotlight: Modulation of functional network co-activation pattern dynamics following ketamine treatment in major depression (Taraku, et al, 2025)

"findings suggest ketamine modulates brain network dynamics which may normalize dynamic patterns seen in TRD at baseline toward patterns seen in controls. Changes in Salience Network state dynamics may correspond to improvements in ruminative symptoms following ketamine therapy."

Spotlight: LSD: Mechanisms and relevance to the treatment of depression (Bouloufa, et al, 2025)

"Psychedelics may be a potential alternative therapy for treatment-resistant depression. LSD has a complex mode of action which is not yet fully understood. Low doses of LSD can drastically increase brain plasticity."
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