Science at Cal - An Inside Look: UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics

Exactly two years ago, before the new Netflix documentary series, “How to Change your Mind” premiered, the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) was founded to provide research, training, and public education on a long-standing taboo in our society: psychedelic drugs. BCSP brings together researchers from across disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, education, journalism, and molecular biology. Michael Silver, the director of BCSP and a professor in optometry and neuroscience, will provide an overview of the burgeoning center and its work to better understand the fundamental properties of the mind, brain, and body through psychedelics. He will also explore BCSP’s role in destigmatizing the use of psychedelic drugs through evidence-based, objective journalism and education, and he will discuss the BCSP’s plans to give back to the Indigenous communities that have served as stewards of plant and fungal medicines for millennia.

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Speaker: Michael Silver, UC Berkeley