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51. Music and Psychedelics with Mendel Kaelen

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In this week’s episode we'll meet Dr Mendel Kaelen, CEO of Wavepaths, a London-based company researching and developing methods for music-assisted psychotherapy. 

 

Prior to Wavepaths, Dr Kaelen worked as a PhD student and post-doctoral neuroscientist at Imperial College London with a special focus of the role of music in psychedelic therapy. Combining his passion to both music and neuroscience he advocates for the therapeutic use of music in talks and publications that has been featured in Nature News, San Francisco Chronicles, Vice Motherboard, Rolling Stone, TEDx and others.

 

Tune in to this week’s episode to gain some insight on how music actually affects our brains and hence ourselves. 

 

Ketamine

Psychedelics

Out of body experience 

Magic mushrooms

Robin Carhart-Harris

Beckley Foundation

Amanda Feilding

Ayahuasca

LSD

Peyote

Helen Bonny

Insight (psychology)

Peak experience

Parahippocampus

Visual cortex

Brocas area (inferior frontal gyrus)

Planum temporale

Timbre

Default mode network

The entropic brain

Hyper-connectivity in the brain under specific drugs

Precuneus 

Serotonin 2a receptor

Pyramidal neurons

Predictive coding

Wavepaths

Michael Pollan 

Brian Eno

Grateful Dead

Acid Test

Buchla synthesizers

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