title: Psychedelics and the science of self-experience.
abstract: Altered self-experiences arise in certain psychiatric conditions, and may be induced by psychoactive drugs and spiritual/religious practices. Recently, a neuroscience of self-experience has begun to crystallise, drawing upon findings from functional neuroimaging and altered states of consciousness occasioned by psychedelic drugs. This advance may be of great importance for psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Matthew M. Nour, BA, BM BCh, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London; Robin L. Carhart-Harris, BSc, MA, PhD, Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK matthew.nour@kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Matthew M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Nour
authors.affiliation: Matthew M. Nour, BA, BM BCh, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London; Robin L. Carhart-Harris, BSc, MA, PhD, Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Robin L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Carhart-Harris
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness / Q000187:drug effects*; D006213:Hallucinogens / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D006213:Hallucinogens