Yale University Psychedelics Study! (up to $280 for games and questionnaires!)

[YalePsychedelicStudy]

~How do psychedelics affect the brain?~

Why do they cause hallucinations and reduce symptoms of mental illness?

The ~Powers Lab at~ ~Yale University~

is recruiting people who have used psychedelics for a fully online study that measures how psychedelics affect basic perception and learning using brief games and questionnaires!

WHAT THE STUDY INVOLVES:

• ~2 hours (though you can take breaks) of time at your computer
• Signing a consent form and completing an eligibility survey
• 2 Questionnaires about psychedelic and other drug use, mental health, how you think, and any unusual sensory experiences you’ve had.
• 4 online games (10-25 minutes each)
• A few debriefing and quality-control questions.

WHAT YOU GET FOR PARTICIPATION:

• $40 Amazon gift card or digital US Bank Prepaid Card (emailed) or Prolific account (direct)
• The ability to participate in another study where you can get $240 — for people who are already planning on using a psychedelic in the future
• Helping the medical and scientific community understand the therapeutic and side effects of psychedelics!

WHAT IS NEEDED TO PARTICIPATE:

1. A Computer (not smartphone or tablet)
2. Stable internet
3. Good headphones,
4. A private, distraction-free space,
5. Some history of psychedelic use
6. No psychoactive drug-use the day of the study (besides nicotine or caffeine)

HOW TO START:

Open the link below to the REDCap survey — you’ll start on the consent and automatically move through the screening survey, questionnaires, and games.

~https://redcap.research.yale.edu/surveys/?s=7AHLLM8MTY9JXW38~

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT US AND THE STUDY:

• Questions and concerns are welcomed by post comments and/or emails to ~maximillian.greenwald@yale.edu~ or messages to YalePsychedelicStudy
• Personal identifying information is not needed — while an email or shipping address is needed for VISA or Amazon gift card, these do not need to be your actual addresses. Those with a Prolific Account will not share any information at all.
• Link to the Powers Lab website: ~https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/powers/~
• Link to the main researcher’s bio at Yale Medical School: ~https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/maximillian-greenwald/~

 

[YalePsychedelicStudy]

For folks worried that the study is a scam -- it is not a scam The $40 is because there's a lot of screening, and if you are someone who does questionnaires slowly it can take up to 4 hours. At least one mod here tried the study, and you can see testimony from other participants from Shroomery.org: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29062490.
If you have questions or anything please feel free to comment or (way faster responses) email me at maximillian.greenwald@yale.edu

 

[fink]

Why not experience it for yourselves?

 

[dreamer042]

It’s great to see Yale sanctioning research related to psychedelics. Thank you for reaching out and sharing this opportunity. We’re glad to help support awareness and recruitment for such important work.

 

[universecannon]

Why not experience it for yourselves?

Someone asked Franz Vollenweider that once during a conference. His response was "what did you think inspired the research?"

 

[YalePsychedelicStudy]

Someone asked Franz Vollenweider that once during a conference. His response was "what did you think inspired the research?"

Things are definitely thawing in US academia, and now you're seeing the disucssion more and more in mainstream conferences over whether or not someone can reasonably practice psychedelic therapy without firsthand experience navigating in the psychedelic space! But at least in the states it's definitely still a place where any academics are pretty much expected to say nothing more than maybe a wink or a nod!

-Max

 

[fink]

What percentage of positive reports do you think would be needed to change the tide? Or, perhaps more pertinent to ask, how many horror reports would it take to crush progress?

Thank you for your work and effort.

 

[YalePsychedelicStudy]

What percentage of positive reports do you think would be needed to change the tide? Or, perhaps more pertinent to ask, how many horror reports would it take to crush progress?

Thank you for your work and effort.

Right now we are fully on-track for psychedelics to be approved! Psychiatry really doesn't have any excuse to delay something with this kind of potential.

For horror reports... I think if we started to see an appreciable number of prolonged psychoses and/or trauma reactions (since these seem to be the most serious risks) then that might derail things... I guess one of my biggest fears is that we will roll out psilocybin or lysergide treatment (since these seem to be a little ahead of DMT and 5MeODMT for now) and folks are going to try to give it the ketamine-model with 10 patients crammed into a room usually used for ECT separated by curtains... if that were to happen you might see an increase in bad reactions. But I don't think this is likely since the proper assisted therapy model has been used from the start. And otherwise I'm preeeetty optimistic that things will change for the better!

Max

 

[fink]

Thank you for that clear response Max. Hopefully the potential treatment infrastructure will be monitored and governed by genuinely caring humans. We definitely do not need any die hard capitalists smelling profits and mass producing treatment centres.