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A previously unknown nerve identified - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ocean/ajra/2011/00000025/00000001/art00021 American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy, OceanSide, ingentaconnect. Shocked

Research at Bristol is covered in this entertaining and informative video - History of Psychedelic Research in the United Kingdom By Dr Ben Sessa This video is from the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century, a conference in San Jose, California, April 15-18 2010, organized by MAPS shocked

Listen to an edited audio recording of the event - http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/what-is-a-drug.aspx Mind-altering drugs are a universal habit, but an acquired taste: one culture’s religious sacrament is another’s public health problem. Over the last century, the West has medicalised or banned many plant drugs that still occupy traditional roles in other societies. How did the contemporary category of ‘drug’ come into being, and how do attitudes differ across other times and places? Speakers Valerie Curran, Professor of Psychopharmacology, UCL. Stephen Hugh-Jones, Honorary Emeritus Associate of the Department of Social A nthropology, University of Cambridge. Andy Letcher, lecturer in religious and cultural studies, author of Shroom: A cultural history of the magic mushroom The evening was conducted by Claudia Hammond. shocked

This is still going around. LSD - Vom Trip zur Therapie? http://www.arte.tv/de/woche/244,broadcastingNum=1220927,day=7,week=3,year=2011.html ARTE is a European public-service cultural television channel. shocked

try this one - how-drugs-work-ecstasy - http://vimeo.com/18811130 vimeo shocked

Hallucinogens: A Trip to Therapy. By Brandon Keim Untouchable for decades, hallucinogenic drugs are back in the lab, with research into how they work and what they might achieve. http://protomag.com/assets/hallucinogens-a-trip-to-therapy?page=1 Massachusetts General Hospital, Dispatches from the Frontiers of Medicine shocked

BBC 3 Programme - How Drugs Work As part of the Dangerous Pleasures season, this three-part series looks at the biological process behind three of the most commonly used recreational drugs - cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy. Episode 2 “Ecstasy”, shown last night on BBC 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xckv8 The programme features interviews with toxicologists, neuro-scientists and medical pharmacologists who explain what actually happens in your body when you indulge, exploding a few myths in the process. With access to cutting edge research at the University of Chicago, we find out how ecstasy creates empathy in the user and how this could one day lead to the drug being used as a life-saving prescription medicine for use in therapy. Alexander Shulgin, Rick Doblin MAPS, MDMA ~PTSD and MDMA Terminal Cancer are incorporated into this documentary Next showing - BBC 3 Thursday 20 Jan 2011 Available on iplayer until 9:59PM Thu, 27 Jan 2011 shocked

Mike Jay on Euronews – http://www.euronews.net/2010/11/12/high-society-exhibition-on-drug-use- What is a Drug? 20 January 2011, 19.00 - 20.30 http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/what-is-a-drug.aspx shocked

Tripping on Science: The Psychedelic Community Contests Terms by Peter Bebergal at the revealer http://therevealer.org/archives/5262 shocked

A History of Cigarette Smoking Is Associated With the Development of Cranial Autonomic Symptoms With Migraine Headaches. Rozen TD Department of Neurology, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA. http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/20553330 shocked

Neuropsychiatric features of cluster headaches R. E. Jorge, J. L. Leston, R. G. Robinson Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA Case-control study of the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders among patients with cluster headaches Page 20 http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/11/1/126 Selected psychological studies in Horton's headache Neurol Neurochir Pol. Adamiak G, Ferensztajn J. http://tinyurl.com/6guy8gj (pubmed) shocked

Interesting and entertaining talk by David Nichols, Ph.D. – Advances In Understanding How Psychedelics Work In The Brain YouTube part 1 of 4 Follow the links to parts 2, 3, & 4. Interesting also - Zeno Sanchez-Ramos - Psilocybin and Nerogenesis Part 1 of 2 Follow the link to part 2 shocked

More from the conference - http://www.horizonsnyc.org/site/video shocked

Tickets / programme now available http://breakingconvention.co.uk shocked

A great place to meet up with some of the team would be here – http://breakingconvention.co.uk Dr Ben Sessa and Amanda Fielding (mentioned above) are amongst many eminent speakers. Shocked

BBC4 series, The Brain - A Secret History, Featuring Dr Michael Mosley taking part in the UK's first scientific trial of psilocybin with Professor David Nutt of Bristol University and a team from Imperial College http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12122409 shocked

Paul Stamets, author of numerous classic books on mycology including The Mushroom Cultivator and Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, gives a slide show demonstration at the 1999 Psychoactivity Conference in Amsterdam. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8264815117722425116# Fascinating for those interested in fungi. Shocked.

Yo Veggies, Try this - A new “3D60™” process, which creates a 360-degree sound experience when heard on stereo headphones. The Orb’s new album - Metallic Spheres, featuring David Gilmour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xAs86wdyH0 shocked

'Breaking Convention: a Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness' http://ukcpsychedelics.co.uk/conference 2nd – 3rd April, 2011. University of Kent at Canterbury shocked

An interesting exhibition at The Wellcome Collection, London Running until 27 February 2011 http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/high-society.aspx With the illicit drug trade estimated by the UN at $320 billion (£200bn) a year and new drugs constantly appearing on the streets and the internet, it can seem as if we are in the grip of an unprecedented level of addiction. Yet the use of psychoactive drugs is nothing new, and indeed our most familiar ones - alcohol, coffee and tobacco - have all been illegal in the past. From ancient Egyptian poppy tinctures to Victorian cocaine eye drops, Native American peyote rites to the salons of the French Romantics, mind-altering drugs have a rich history. 'High Society' will explore the paths by which these drugs were first discovered - from apothecaries' workshops to state-of-the-art laboratories - and how they came to be simultaneously fetishised and demonised in today’s culture. Check out the events link - Packed Lunch with Celia Morgan 1 December 2010 Feed your curiosity at our daytime discussions. Drop in to hear local scientists in conversation about their latest experiments, life in the lab and why science matters to everyone, all in the space of your lunch hour. Bring your sarnies with you to eat while you listen. What’s it like being a scientist with a licence to possess illegal drugs? Celia Morgan, a psychologist at UCL, works on cannabis and ketamine, conducting experiments on people who are high on their own supply to determine the effect of drugs on their cognitive function. Join her to find out about the science of getting stoned. Describing the Drug Experience 2 December 2010 Most medicinal drugs can be tested in the lab or on animals, and their effects measured and observed. But drugs that alter consciousness can only be fully described by human subjects - often reporting wildly different experiences. Can science make sense of these subjective experiences, or are they better conveyed by artists or writers? Speakers Susan Blackmore, Visiting Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Plymouth Geoff Dyer, novelist, essayist and art critic Mike Jay, author and historian of drugs and science, curator of the 'High Society' exhibition What is a Drug? 20 January 2011, Mind-altering drugs are a universal habit, but an acquired taste: one culture’s religious sacrament is another’s public health problem. Over the last century, the West has medicalised or banned many plant drugs that still occupy traditional roles in other societies. How did the contemporary category of ‘drug’ come into being, and how do attitudes differ across other times and places? Speakers Valerie Curran, Professor of Psychopharmacology, UCL. Stephen Hugh-Jones, Honorary Emeritus Associate of the Department of Social A nthropology, University of Cambridge. Andy Letcher, lecturer in religious and cultural studies, author of Shroom: A cultural history of the magic mushroom. Please note - these events are free of charge Telegraph review - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8118767/High-Society-exhibition-can-dope-give-us-hope.html High Society exhibition: can dope give us hope? The ban on hallucinogens is holding back vital research into their medical benefits, says Jake Wallis Simons. shocked

History of the Psychedelic Rediscoverd at drugs library org The Door in the Wall - Part II Psychedelics in the 1950s. An excerpt from – Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens. Harper & Row Publishers, http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/stevens2.htm Quote (from near to the end of this excerpt) - “Anecdotes started to rise to the surface, slicing through the murky analytical jargon. A number of therapists talked about the serendipitous side effects that they sometimes saw in their patients. They would be in the middle of a post session interview, perhaps two or three weeks after the original LSD session, and the patient would suddenly say, "Oh and the headache is gone too." What headache? they'd ask. Why the headache I've had for ten or fifteen years, would be the answer.” shocked

Gird your loins - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4dKcVAhTmg shocked

Speaker Robert Wold at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century, a conference in San Jose, California, April 15-18 2010 Development of Psilocybin, LSD, and Bromo-LSD for Cluster Headache by MAPS: Psychedelic Science “Cluster Headache is not what one usually thinks of when someone says they have a headache: the pain will wake one up out of their sleep and is so searing and painful that people are known to pull out their hair or bang their head against the wall or [ch64258]oor to distract themselves. Indeed, cluster has been nicknamed “suicide headaches.” Listeners left this presentation knowing a lot more about cluster headache and the story of how patients have come to [ch64257]nd in psilocybin and LSD a profound medication that helps more than the medicines currently available from physicians.” Shocked

The best abortive treatment isn’t even a drug. Inhaling pure oxygen works for about 80% of cluster headache sufferers, although the attack must be caught within five minutes. Access to the bulky cylinder also isn’t always possible. Frustrated with the poor functionality of existing equipment, lifelong chronic sufferer Ben Khan invented the ‘Clustermasx’ which, Khan says, uses less oxygen, is more effective and can abort an attack in five minutes. One reviewer of his method raved that “a layer of pain is shaved off with every inhalation.” http://www.maps.org/research/cluster/psilo-lsd/nm0107-10.pdf Ben’s own research into oxygen therapy and its delivery systems has made him an authority on the subject and led to his design and creation of Clustermasx . Ben will be explaining how Clustermasx became a reality and will be demonstrating the qualities of this new system, which is now being used with amazing worldwide results. An oxygen delivery system, the first ever specifically designed for cluster headache treatment, for delivering pure O2 for maximum relief and effect. http://www.clusterbusters.com/convention.htm Golden Regulator http://www.ouch-us.org/gatherings/milcon06/goldenreg-khan.wmv shocked

Yes, incredibly beautiful. Many said “fantastic” and “perfect” I loved it. Your right, no real ones anymore, only copies. shocked