DMTweet

DMTweet: a PsyMed Ventures x Business Trip collab

DMTweet is a newsletter of psychedelic tweets that catch our eye 👀.

This is a collaboration between PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip (yes, we’re the folks working on both 🙃).

Tweets include: Industry updates 💼, Therapy 🛋️, Psychedelic research 🧪, Neuroscience 🧠, Consciousness ✨, Indigenous reciprocity ⚖️, Regulatory updates 📜, and Trippy ideas 👽.

Inclusion = interesting ≠ endorsement.

Let’s get to it….

Shayla Love @shayla__love

I wrote about the explosion of drug discovery for compounds similar to or inspired by the ‘classic’ psychedelic drugs. Many of the drugs in development seek to improve upon the classics, and eventually replace them in some clinical situations.

vice.comThe Future of Psychedelic Medicine Will Be Drugs You’ve Never Heard OfScientists are designing new psychedelic-inspired drugs that don’t yet exist, which might have effects no one can yet describe.

Zavain Dar @zavaindar

100 biotechs trading BELOW net cash world wide. The biggest risk of advancing promising therapies & novel modalities for patients isn’t the science/tech not working, but rather myopically short term investors and a lack of patient long term capital to fund platforms to fruition

Michael Fulwiler @MichaelFulwiler

In a study of the 93 most downloaded self-guided mental health apps, only 3.9% (!) of people continued using them after 14 days.

Psilocybin Alpha @PsilocybinAlpha

Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board meeting heats up amid debate over whether microdosing will be included. @MasonMarksMD called to have @Jfadiman address the meeting, but met opposition from @DrAtheirAbbas.

wweek.comOregon Voters Legalized Psilocybin Use. But What About Microdosing?

Dr. Jussi Jylkkä @JylkkaJussi

What do you think are the most central aspects of psychedelic experience that produce long-term changes in a person?

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Alex Kwan 關進晞 @kwanalexc

A primer article about #psychedelics. We wanted a concise and accurate piece to share with undergraduates, journalists, and others who want to know more. Free link via @CurrentBiology: cell.com/current-biolog… @YalePsych @YaleMed 1/n

Matt Baggott @mattbagg

MDMA use to maintain and improve close relationships is pretty common and doesn't get nearly enough intention.

link.springer.comEvenings with Molly: Adult Couples’ Use of MDMA for Relationship Enhancement - Culture, Medicine, and PsychiatryWithin the modern resurgence of psychedelics as medicinal agents for a range of conditions, the story of MDMA (Ecstasy, Molly) has been re-narrated from a dangerous street drug to a breakthrough mental health therapy. Even still, the story of MDMA remains incomplete within a binary discourse of devi…

Abraham G. Beyene @BeyeneAbraham

Here is a first of its kind visualization of evoked release from a dendritic process of a dopamine neuron:

Psychedelic Club @psychedeliclub

“Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.” -Albert Hofmann

enlightenment memes @BeThereLater

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Until next time…

Greg, Matias, and Dina

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DMTweet is a collab between PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip. PsyMed Ventures is a community-focused fund and syndicate investing in psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. Business Trip is a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship. Our mission is to help expand access to psychedelic medicine and mental health.