Spotlight: Symptom modulation and tolerability of intravenous ketamine in treatment-resistant bipolar depression: A retrospective study (Cuomo, et al, 2025)

The review underscores the safety and efficacy of ketamine for patients with Bipolar Disorder.

Considering the critical role music has on the psychedelic experience and mental health

In psychedelic experiencing, training and research, one of the common and most-emphasized themes is music.

Spotlight: Beyond Gender: Indigenous Perspectives, Muxe

A limited series on some of the world's third gender Indigenous people

Ketamine - "psychedelic" or "dissociative"? Experts weigh in

Closed caption (no audio) from a recent Harvard Medical School training on psychedelic medicines. Read what this panel has to say on the problematic categorization of ketamine as a "dissociative anesthetic". Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD: When we talk about the dissociative aspect of ketamine, what are we dissociated

Spotlight: Why consciousness must be quantum mechanical | Stuart Hameroff

“Can the psychedelic experience be explained by quantum collapses?”

Spotlight: Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy: Review of the Results of Ten Years of Research (Krupitsky & Grinenko, 1997)

"We have been working with KPT since 1985 and have already treated with KPT more than 1000 alcoholic patients without any complications like protracted psychoses, flashbacks, agitation, or ketamine abuse. So, KPT seems to be safe and effective method of treatment of alcohol dependence."

Spotlight: The shameful history of psychedelic gay conversion therapy

A range of other gay “treatments” were also in use, not only mind-altering drugs but also aversion therapy with electric shocks, and chemical castration.

Spotlight: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Provides Lasting and Effective Results in the Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at 3 and 6 Months: Findings from a Large Retrospective Effectiveness Study (Yermus, et al, 2024)

"KAP produced sustained reductions in anxiety, depression, and PTSD, with symptom improvement lasting well beyond the duration of dosing and integration sessions. These effects extended to as much as 5 months after the last KAP session."

Spotlight: on Stan Grof's Basic Perinatal Matrices

According to Kolp, 2014, some people in ketamine psychedelic therapy describe their experiences with the medicine in similar terms to Grof's work in the mid 20th Century with LSD and Holotropic Breathwork, a non-medicine psychedelic practice.

Spotlight: Freedom of Mind Resource Center

"We support those affected by undue influence by providing coaching and consulting services as well as training and educational resources for individuals, families and professionals."

Spotlight: JAMA-- "Telehealth Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention A Randomized Clinical Trial" (Baker, et al, 2024)

"The findings of this randomized clinical trial suggest that BCBT delivered via video telehealth is effective for reducing suicide attempts among adults with recent suicidal thoughts and/or behaviors."

Spotlight: Brainfutures-- Neuroplasticity 101

Understanding how brain plasticity works can help us attain our own cognitive goals as well as improve the ways experts treat and support people with neurological and behavioral health problems.