PT416 – Frederick Barrett, Ph.D. – A New Chapter for Johns Hopkins Psychedelic & Consciousness Research
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In this episode, David interviews Frederick Barrett, Ph.D.: cognitive neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and now, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research.
With today's news, Barrett officially takes over for the legendary Roland Griffiths, who has been in the role since the Center's launch in 2019, and who will continue on as a member of the leadership team while dealing with the Stage 4 cancer diagnosis he has been remarkably candid about in recent interviews.
Dr. Barrett has been conducting research at Johns Hopkins for a decade, authoring or co-authoring some of the first studies on psilocybin's enduring effects, and receiving the first federally funded human psychedelic research grant from the NIH since the 70s. He discusses the work and importance of Roland Griffiths; the history of the Center and current research he's most excited about; the mystery of consciousness; and the power and sacredness of music: how we all use music to regulate our emotions, and how he wants to explore the brain mechanisms behind that connection.
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| 1:50.7 | Hello everybody. Thanks for tuning in. It's David Drapkin here at Psychedics today in conversation with Dr. Fred Barrett, who is the new director of the Johns Hopkins |
| 1:56.4 | Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. That was announced today, June 20th. |
| 2:01.5 | So this is a bit of a breaking new story. |
| 2:03.6 | We had this chat last week, |
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