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BBC Radio - Health Check,

Broadcast on BBC World Service, 7:32PM Wed, 27 Jun 2012. / 11:32AM Thu, 28 Jun 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00trr2l/Health_Check_27_06_2012

Cluster headache is an excruciating condition that affects about 0.04% of the population. They occur much more often in men than women and are described as feeling like an intense pressure behind the skull and daggers being forced through the eye. The pain can be so debilitating that it has led some sufferers to suicide. Unfortunately, doctors don’t know what causes cluster headaches or how to cure them – so people have started to look for their own answers.

Dr Andrew Sewell of Yale Medical School came across anecdotal reports that cluster attacks could be stopped by eating Morning Glory seeds, which contain a substance similar to LSD. Claudia Hammond spoke to Professor Monique Simmonds from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London about the Morning Glory plant, and to Dr Sewell about whether the seeds really work.

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BBC World Service Radio – Health Check

Featuring Dr. Andrew Sewell talking to Claudia Hammond.

Alternative link -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/healthc#playepisode2

Previously by Claudia -

BBC Radio 4. All in the Mind.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/allinthemind_20060404.shtml

Claudia Hammond takes a trip into the world of psychedelic drugs.

an excellent special edition on the latest developments in LSD research and therapy

The programme examines the science of how LSD acts on the mind and brain, as well as research on the use of psychedelics to treat cluster headaches and mental distress.

ItÂ’s nearly 40 years since LSD was made illegal, but now thereÂ’s growing scientific interest in studying hallucinogenic drugs. In the 50s LSD was believed to be a wonder drug and used widely in psychiatry to treat conditions from depression to addiction. 

In this weekÂ’s programme Claudia finds out about the new research underway using psychedelics, and asks whether modern psychiatry is really the place for drugs like LSD, magic mushrooms and Ecstasy.

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I recommend watching the second video/part 2 of AndrewÂ’s presentation at the Mind Altering Science conference (posted above).

Future studies proposed by Andrew and Yale are very exiting.

Alterative link –

http://www.stichtingopen.nl/en/psychedelics/videotheque/open-videos/mind-altering-science-andrew-sewell

About Andrew Sewell

After graduating with a BA in Physics from Cornell University, Dr. Sewell decided to pursue his interest in entheogens by obtaining an MD from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1998 then completing a combined residency in Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine in 2004, where he served as Chief Resident in Neuropsychiatry. Following this, he attended a substance abuse research fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he served as Managing Editor of the McLean Annals of Behavioral Neurology. He also published the first paper ever on the response of cluster headache to psilocybin and LSD, presenting the data both at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting and the International LSD Symposium in Basel in 2006. He followed this with a discussion of the effect of LSA-containing seeds on cluster headache at the 2008 World Psychedelic Forum. For the last three years he has worked at Yale University in the Schizophrenia Research Group under Dr. Cyril D'Souza, studying the effects of psychotropic agents such as THC, amphetamine, iomazenil, and salvinorin A in human subjects. His research interests include the pathophysiology and treatment of cluster headache, mechanisms and characterization of psychosis (both induced and in schizophrenia), and therapeutic applications of entheogens. Dr. Sewell is board-certified in both neurology and psychiatry, serves on the Erowid Expert Network and the Scientific Program Committee of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He has published widely on cluster headache and the relationship between cannabis and psychosis.

Previously by Andrew –

http://psychonautdocs.com/docs/sewell_2006_response_of_cluster_headache_to_psilocybin_and_lsd.pdf

http://psychonautdocs.com/docs/sewell_2009_unauthorized_research_on_cluster_headache.pdf

My favourite image of Andrew –

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_humor_chick_parody1.pdf

Andrew’s Blog site –

http://www.clusterattack.com/blog/home/

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I like this description of Andrew by Rak Razam at ShazamanÂ’s gonzo blog reviewing the LSD Symposium celebrating Albert HofmannÂ’s 100 birthday back in 2006.

http://undergrowth.org/rebirth_the_psychedelic_movement_comes_of_age_rak_razam

“Dr. Andrew Sewell, M.D, comes on next with strength of conviction, a young bull on the rise, championing the cause. Dr. Sewell is tall and dark haired with a neat black beard and a clear, cultured accent, a trace of the English professor about him. As a Research Fellow in Psychiatry, Dr. Halpern and the Harvard team are applying for the right to renew clinical trials with LSD and Psilocybin for an extreme type of migraine attack called a cluster headache. It's his first clinical trial of this sort and the bright young Doctor is awash with enthusiasm at the prospect, yet to endure a FDA-shakedown or bureaucratic go-slow, much less a media frenzy. His research is important and could directly ease pain for tens of thousands of people worldwide. Cluster head attacks are a very specific type of headache. They affect men more than women and commonly come in crippling bouts or clusters that cause such intense pain that sufferers have been known to try and suicide.

A British `clusterhead' in the crowd adds to the talk-show atmosphere by describing his painful encounters with sporadic cluster attacks. BBC Woman pounces on his heartfelt first hand accounts like a beast to her prey, as Dr. Sewell continues his general introduction to the community at large.

The next day I would see him wandering the lobby, standing out from the common Heads in his magnificent Buddhist robe of distinction, quite an eye for the heritage of his Harvard position and the media branding required of the role. Does he or doesn't he? Shades of Jimi Hendrix - are you experienced? Given what went down the last time a Harvard professor started enthusing about LSD, should he? Who knows. All I can say is that Sewell's got some mighty big shoes to fill, and History will tell the tale.”

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