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The world's psychedelic and consciousness research, in one open library
Search an ever-growing collection of studies on the mind and its altered states, each summarized in plain language.
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Psychedelics
Cannabinoids and the Brain<br>22h ago · 2017
Practices
Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition.<br>6.27k citations · Clinical Psychology Science and Practice · 2004
Experience
The clinical assessment of violence in the context of psychosis: taking a phenomenological stance<br>1d ago · BJ Psych Advances · 2024
Neuroscience
Rat brains also have a default mode network<br>627 citations · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012
Humanities
CONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS MODERATION IN SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR'S PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY PERSPECTIVE<br>2d ago · Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism · 2023
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35,726 articles, aggregated from PubMed, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, and more, each summarized in plain language. Every summary is free to read, and every article links back to its original source.
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Tens of thousands of articles from PubMed, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, and more, spanning psychedelics, meditation, philosophy of mind, and the humanities, each summarized with study design, sample size, and key finding.
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The Research Synthesis Tool reads across the library and answers with the evidence<br>behind it: where studies converge, where they conflict, and what remains unknown.
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Does psilocybin reduce depressive symptoms?<br>What does meditation change in the brain?<br>What happens in the brain during lucid dreaming?
Example of a synthesis result: for the question "Does psilocybin reduce depressive symptoms?", the tool answers with moderate confidence, weighing 24 studies and noting 3 points of conflict and 4 open gaps.
Does psilocybin reduce depressive symptoms?
Example output
Answer<br>Moderate confidence
Randomized trials consistently report rapid, clinically significant reductions in depressive<br>symptoms after one or two guided doses, with effects persisting weeks to months. Sample sizes<br>remain modest and blinding is imperfect...
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