TW: Suicide Vanessa Bortolin is a retired accountant, mother to a teenage daughter and widow to her beautiful husband of 30 years, Franco, who she lost two years ago to suicide after his 3-year battle with treatment-resistant clinical depression. Vanessa had the foresight to begin documenting, via an excel spreadsheet, medication dosage increments and their side effects (total 19 different antidepressant/anti-psychotic drugs), treatments administered (total 96 ECT’s and 24 TMS’s), the 9 hospital...
Oct 26, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses. In furtherance of this mission, The Mind Medicine Australia Podcast ‘Season 2’ aims to connect, listen and share the power of lived experience stories of mental health challenges and a...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses. Mind Medicine Australia is a registered charity founded by Tania de Jong AM and Peter Hunt AM. We are supporting clinical research and working towards regulatory-approved and evidence-...
Aug 21, 2023•5 min
This podcast discusses the current state of research on the use of psychedelics in psychiatry, especially psilocybin, for the treatment of depression and other mental illnesses, including the precautions that must be taken before treatment, the standardized four-stage treatment model for depression, and the obstacles that must be overcome to use psychedelic therapy on a larger scale. Current Status of Psychedelics in Psychiatry (D Nutt & R Cahart-Harris) Support the podcast Certificate in Ps...
Apr 09, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 26
In this podcast, we will provide a brief overview of psychedelic-assisted therapy, including its therapeutic process and the psychedelic experience. Support the podcast Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies Donate to Mind Medicine Australia In this episode: The definition of psychedelic-assisted therapy The three phases of the therapeutic process The importance of non-psychedelic elements in the therapy Set and setting during the psychedelic experience The effects of psychedelic compound...
Mar 25, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 25
In this podcast, we discuss what the next steps are, following the TGA's decision to change the classification of psilocybin and MDMA to enable prescribing by authorised psychiatrists. Support the podcast In this episode: The mission of Mind Medicine in light of the rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA for medical use in Australia effective July 1st, 2023. The podcast will shift focus towards a more in-depth analysis of newly published research articles on psychedelics, as well as previous resear...
Mar 17, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Professor David Nutt is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain. In this episode: The Endocannabinoid System THC, CBD and other cannabinoids CB1 and CB2 receptors The Entourage Effect Constituents of cannabis Medicinal Cannabis Support the podcast: Support the podcast Support Mind Medicine Australia's mission: Mind Medicine Australia Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/mind-medicine-australia . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Dr James Fadiman is an American psychologist and writer. Fadiman received a Master's degree and a doctorate in Psychology from Stanford University back in 1960. His friend and former Harvard undergraduate advisor, Ram Dass (then known as Richard Alpert), introduced him to psychedelics. Fast-forward 60 years and Fadiman is now known and acknowledged for his research and clinical work in psychedelic therapy and microdosing. In this episode: Microdosing: Practice & Benefits Psychedelics in psyc...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Katrin Preller received her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2013. After completing her PhD, she investigated the effects of psychedelics on self-perception and social cognition. Her research interests are centred around the neuropharmacology of emotional and cognitive processes in health and psychiatric illnesses, as well as (pharmacological) neuroimaging analysis methodology. She is particularly interred in substance use disorders as well as the role...
May 04, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Professor Karl Friston is a British theoretical neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on brain imaging. Karl has been awarded with countless different prizes and accomplishments, and is considered one of the most influential neuroscientists of the modern era. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). Friston currently works on models of functional integration in the human brain and the principles tha...
Nov 27, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Dan Engle, MD, is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance. Dan obtained his medical degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His psychiatry residency degree is from the University of Colorado Denver, and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship degree is from Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Engle is an international consultant to several global healing...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Lynn-Marie Morski, MD, JD is the president of the Psychedelic Medicine Association, host of the Plant Medicine Podcast, founder of Plant Medicine.org, and the medical director for Way of Leaf.com. Lynn-Marie is a Mayo Clinic-trained physician in family medicine and sports medicine, as well as an attorney and former adjunct law professor. She started the Plant Medicine Podcast to bring scientific researchers, practitioners, and those who have been personally affected by the healing powers of thes...
Oct 14, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Adam Gazzaley MD, PhD is a neuroscientist, neurologist, inventor, author, photographer, entrepreneur and investor. Adam obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, completed Neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley. He is now the David Dolby Distinguished Professor in Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry at University of California, San Franc...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Prof David Nutt is Neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. David is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. Nutt is the deputy head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. He and his team have published research into psilocybin for TRD, as well as neuroimaging studies investigating p...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Dennis McKenna is an Ethnopharmacolgist, research pharmacist, lecturer, and author. Dennis is a founding member and director of ethnographic research at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization involved in investigating the potential of therapeutic use of drugs. He is the brother of the famous psychedelic advocate Terence McKenna. In this episode: Preserving indigenous practice, challenges we face Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy The brain as a reducing valve of reality The...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Andrew Robb was Australia’s Minister for Trade, Investment, and Tourism. Currently, Andrew is the chairman of The Robb Group (corporate and investment advisory company) and is a board member for multiple organizations, including Mind Medicine Australia. He is the author of Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons, his memoir that explores the challenges of managing depression, political ambition, and the life of the liberal party. In this episode: Personal journey - political ambition, battle...
Aug 17, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Nigel Denning is the Director and Counselling Psychologist at Integrative Psychology Nigel is a former Family Violence Co-ordinator for Relationships Australia and is the Deputy President of the In Good Faith Foundation. He has studied in the United States and Europe with Dr. Stanislac Grof, one of the founders of Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork. He has also helped build and deliver the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (CPAT), which has been developed primarily to...
Aug 08, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Lars Wilde is the President, Chief Business Officer, and Co-founder of COMPASS Pathways. COMPASS is a UK life sciences company that works to expedite the approval and delivery of mental health therapies to patients and focuses primarily on testing psilocybin for use in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). They have 22 trials running through the US and Europe for TRD. In this episode: Personal journey and battles with anxiety, and seeking psychiatric help The subjective experience ...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 12
David Bryce Yaden, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine in The Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research . David's research focus is on the psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopharmacology of spiritual, self-transcendent, and positively transformative experiences triggered with psychedelic substances and other means. Specifically, he is interested in understanding how these experiences can result in long-term changes to well-being and how they tempo...
Jun 27, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 11
Dr. Rachel Yehuda, PhD. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. This research includes the PTSD clinical research program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Centre. In this episode: Defining trauma Diagnosing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Symptomatology associated with trauma and PTSD The s...
May 19, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 10
The scope of psychedelic research is expanding and it's only in the last couple of decades that we have been able to find how MDMA, among other psychedelic compounds, exert their effect in the body. Pharmacology is the use, effects, and modes of drug action. In this episode: Pharmacology and therapeutic mechanisms of MDMA: Where does psilocybin exert its effect in our body? How is it metabolised? What receptors in the brain and body does it engage with? What is the result of the change in physio...
May 12, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 9
The scope of psychedelic research is expanding and it's only in the last couple of decades that we have been able to find how psilocybin, as well as other psychedelic compounds, exert their effect in the body. Pharmacology is the use, effects, and modes of drug action. In this episode: Pharmacology and therapeutic mechanisms of Psilocybin: Where does psilocybin exert its effect in our body? How is it metabolised? What receptors in the brain and body does it engage with? What is the result of the...
May 05, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Peter Hunt AM is a Social Entrepreneur, Investor and Engaged Philanthropist, Founder Greenhill Australia, Women's Commnity Shelters and Mind Medicine Australia. In this episode: Stats on mental illness in Australia Psilocybin and MDMA - psychological phenomena and scientific evidence Antidepressants / SSRIs and common pharmaceutical treatments Reinforcement of mental illness through diagnosis Destigmatizing drugs and the word "drug" The context of psychedelic psychotherapy including its set and ...
Mar 15, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Rick Doblin, PhD. is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). MAPS is a non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. Rick did his Master's thesis on a survey of oncologists on cannabis in nausea control for cancer patients. He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Governm...
Dec 26, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Reid Robison, MD MBA, is a psychedelic psychiatrist & researcher. Reid has led over 100 clinical trials in neuropsychiatry. He completed his undergraduate in Neuroscience at Brigham Young University and went on to medical school at the University of Utah where he earned both his MD and MBA. Of course, he didn’t stop there, after residency training in Psychiatry, Dr Robison completed fellowship training in Neurodevelopmental Genetics, followed by a postdoc in Bioinformatics. As an early adopt...
Dec 06, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a psychiatrist, author and columnist. Tanveer works in the public, private and forensic sectors. He has served on local government, the government advisory body called the Australia Multicultural Council, the Advertising Standards Board and as a Governor of the Smith Family. His 2 books Fragile Nation and In Defence Of Shame examine the rise of mental health conditions and explore the complexity of mental distress. He was previously chosen by a Prime Minister's committee as o...
Nov 23, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Dr. Prash Puspanathan (aka Dr. Prash P) is a medical doctor and has been a Neurospychiatry Fellow at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne since 2013. It was his initial interest in psychedelic medicine that prompted his curiosity into the world of the mind, leading him to study Psychiatry to further his interest in psychedelic medicine and its therapeutic potential. Prash has been a medical doctor at the Alfred Hospital where he has most recently held the position of Neuropsychiatry Fellow. He has b...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Dr. Alana Roy is a psychologist, mental health social worker, counselor, advocate, researcher, mindfulness meditation teacher, and therapist and has spent the last 13 years working in a broad range of settings including suicide prevention, trauma, sexual abuse, and family violence, and also the disability sector. Alana utilizes and offers a wide range of therapies in her practice including emotion-focused therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive-behavioral therapy...
Oct 13, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Tania De Jong AM is the co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia, inspirational speaker, singer, businesswoman and social entrepreneur who has founded a number of successful businesses including Creative Universe, leading innovation conference Creative Innovation Global, Inspiring Minds leadership programs, MTA Entertainment and Events, Dimension5 co-working space, and acclaimed singing group Pot-Pourri. In this episode: The potential of psychedelic medicines for psychiatry. Social, behaviour and t...
Oct 06, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
