UCSD receives $1.5 million to study effects of psychedelic DMT on brain, body. N,N-dimethyltryptamine, better known as DMT, can cause “imaginative visuals akin to the dream state” and some claim it can help with issues such as depression and addiction.
SAN DIEGO – A $1.5 million gift to UC San Diego will help fund a research program into the biological and psychological effect of a powerful psychedelic in humans, it was announced Tuesday.
Eugene Jhong gifted the university the $1.5 million, which will use the funding to “implement continuous intravenous DMT infusion protocols to capture what is known as the “extended state” of visions long associated with DMT, the statement reads.
“We will learn more about how the unique effects of DMT on consciousness interacts with human physiology to understand how these profound psychedelic effects evoked by DMT impact our well-being,” said Fadel Zeidan, associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UCSD School of Medicine.
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