ALPS Podcast on Psychedelic Science

Guest: Jonas T. T. Schlomberg, PhD researcher at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich (UZH) Jonas T. T. Schlomberg is a researcher at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich (UZH). His work explores the intersection between psychedelics, meditation, and consciousness, combining qualitative and computational methods. Trained in neuroscience and phenomenology, he investigates how altere...

Invité: Dr Vincent Liaudat, musicien, psychiatre et psychothérapeute. Vincent Liaudat est psychiatre et psychothérapeute suisse, spécialisé dans les états modifiés de conscience et la médecine psychédélique. Multi-instrumentiste et compositeur, il crée aussi des expériences de musique immersive où neurosciences, art sonore et méditation se rencontrent. À travers ses concerts hypnotiques, il explor...

Invitée Bettina Ferdmann, co-fondatrice de la Fondation Conscience et Santé Mentale. Coach, entrepreneure et écrivaine, Bettina Ferdmann est l'une des pionnières de la RSE en Suisse. Elle a passé sa carrière à relier sens, impact et transformation — aussi bien individuelle qu'organisationnelle. Elle met aujourd'hui cette expérience au service d'un projet visionnaire : la Fondation...

What actually happens to the self under psychedelics? In this episode, linguist and cognitive scientist PD. Dr. Kurt Stocker introduces a new framework for understanding psychedelic experience—beyond “mystical” or “spiritual” labels. Drawing on placebo-controlled studies with LSD and DMT, he explores how experiences of ego dissolution, transcendence, and interconnectedness are structured, describe...

What happens to memory under psychedelics? In this episode, cognitive neuropsychopharmacologist Manoj Doss breaks down how psychedelics alter memory formation, stabilization, and retrieval. We explore disrupted hippocampal encoding alongside enhanced cortical learning, fear extinction, and reward adaptation—showing how these compounds reshape cognition rather than simply “expand consciousness.” Dr...

Rick Doblin, Ph. D., is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) . He founded MAPS in 1986 and is considered the godfather of the current psychedelic renaissance.  Rick studied with Dr. Stanislav Grof and was among the first to be certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the b...

Michael Mithoefer, MD, is a psychiatrist living in Asheville, NC. He and his wife, Annie, completed the first MAPS-sponsored Phase Il clinical trial testing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for crime-related PTSD, and subsequent studies with military veterans, firefighters and police officers, and a pilot study treating couples. He has been Medical Monitor for a series of Phase 2 trials which produced...

Vanja Palmers was born in Austria and grew up in Switzerland. His career as a student at the University of Zürich and as the founder of a successful business start up came to a sudden halt when he ingested a few micrograms of a certain fungi derivative aka LSD. After a few years of being  a Hippie and a Yogi, he ended up becoming a Zen person, specializing in being nobody special, making effort to...

Abigail Calder is a PhD candidate at the University in Fribourg, Switzerland, where she heads a research project on the effects of LSD on neuroplasticity in healthy people. She also conducts research into the adverse effects of psychedelics and their underlying causes, as well as psychedelics’ effects on people’s values and well-being, and she recently joined the ALPS Foundation as its research co...

This interview was recorded on 16.02.2023 for the ALPS Podcast on Psychedelic Science. More info on the ALPS Foundation - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube For over 15 years Dr. Ben Sessa has been at the forefront of psychedelic research in the UK through his affiliations with Imperial College London. He has worked for 30 years with patients in the field of addictions and trauma-r...

This talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 30.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Christopher Timmermann (PhD) has a background in psychology and cognitive neuroscience and is currently a researcher based at Center for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. He leads n...

This talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 30.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Professor Torsten Passie (MD, PhD) studied philosophy and sociology at Leibniz University Hannover and medicine at Hannover Medical School. Medical dissertation on existential psychiatry. Educatio...

This interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Matthias Liechti is a professor of clinical pharmacology and internal medicine at the University Hospital Basel. With his psychopharmacology research team he investigates the pharmacology o...

This interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Sam Gandy is a PhD ecologist, independent researcher, consultant and science writer. Sam has varied experience of working within the psychedelic field, as a past scientific assistant to the...

This interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Sam Gandy is a PhD ecologist, independent researcher, consultant and science writer. Sam has varied experience of working within the psychedelic field, as a past scientific assistant to the...

This talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube  Kim PC Kuypers is affiliated as an Associate Professor with Maastricht University, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her research has three pillars. The main goal is to understand th...

This talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube For over 15 years Dr Ben Sessa has been at the forefront of psychedelic research in the UK through his affiliations with Imperial College London. He has worked for 30 years with patients in the...

This talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube With a main academic background in Psychology, Helena Aicher has been working in the last years in the Psychedelic Research and Therapy Development team at the UZH. Her research focus is on the...

This interview was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube With a main academic background in Psychology, Helena Aicher has been working in the last years in the Psychedelic Research and Therapy Development team at the UZH. Her research focus is on...

This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 29.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Professor Torsten Passie (MD, PhD) studied philosophy and sociology at Leibniz University Hannover and medicine at Hannover Medical School. Medical dissertation on existential psychiatry....

This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Rick Doblin is an Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies ( @MAPS ). More info on Rick : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Doblin https...

This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Recap from Day 1 with Ben and Michael. 

This presentation was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Whitehead, and in fields pertaining to altered and panpsycholo...

This opening talk was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2022 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Federico Seragnoli is one of the co-founder of the Alps Conference for awareness lectures on psychedelic science.  More information on the Alps  on https://www.alpsconference.c...

This discussion was recorded during the Alps Conference 2022 on psychedelic research in Bern, Switzerland on 28.10.2022. More info on the Alps Conference 2021 - Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Youtube Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Whitehead, and in fields pertaining to altered and panpsychologi...