DMTweet

a tweet recap by PsyMed Ventures x Business Trip (issue #14)

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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…

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

There is a 100% chance that this graph is a core reason for America's surge of anxiety and depression. Time spent with other people has plummeted—for every age group, ethnicity, gender, geography, and income level. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Doug Drysdale @insidepharma

12/14 patients in remission at 3 months. Psychedelics are going to be a game changer with the potential to benefit millions of patients.

Tommaso Barba @tommaso_barba

(1/5) New preliminary results show that psilocybin-assisted therapy could have potential in treating Bipolar II Disorder. Very curious to hear thoughts on this. #Psilocybin #psychedelics https://t.co/qpjq1bumZA

Julie Holland, MD @BellevueDoc

this review provides a deep dive into psychedelic pharmaco-neuroimaging studies with a core focus on how recent computational psychiatry advances in biophysically based circuit modeling can be leveraged to predict individual responses. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Matt Baggott @mattbagg

BMI does not predict measured intensity of psilocybin experience after a fixed 25 mg dose journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Andrew Gallimore @alieninsect

DMT vs 5-MeO-DMT: Why do such similar molecules have such dramatically different effects? A thread... DMT is a characteristically visual experience, notable for the fully immersive worlds of immense complexity, filled with intelligent and communicative beings.

Terence McKenna's Dad @FatherMcKennaa

Happy Birthday and RIP to Terence McKenna- an author, orator, mystic, ethnobotanist, and psychedelic pioneer. In honor of him, here's a thread about his life:

David Hillier @dhillierwrites

ICYMI: I looked into the urban legend of 'losing the magic' with MDMA for @VICEUK. Had loads of habitual ravers message me since yesterday saying it happened to them

vice.com‘Losing the Magic’: When MDMA Stops WorkingSome molly users report that the drug no longer has an effect on them. Here’s what might be happening.

Ginny Hogan_ @ginnyhogan_

me: I'm worried if I start antidepressants, I won't get the full human experience because my negative emotions will be blocked my doctor: well, the good news is they don't actually work that well

Until next time,

Greg & Matias

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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 the business of psychedelics. Our mission is to help expand access to psychedelic medicine and mental health.