Mind Medicine Australia

TW: Suicide Rising into the public eye as esteemed Founder of Cutting Edge Post, one of Australia’s largest and most awarded post production companies and working on over 50 US and Australian movies and over 700 episodes of scripted drama television as well as many thousands of television commercials, John Lee is renowned as a skilled Technical Director and entrepreneur who has pursued a colourful...

TW: Suicide A passionate Mental Health Advocate, mentor, leader and speaker. Simone was voted (Inside Small Business Magazine) as one of the top 50 Business Leaders for 2020. She is a successful entrepreneur and CEO.   She was Head of social enterprise for World Vision Australia, responsible for the start up and international scaling of Change Coffee. Contributing all sales to the g...

TW: Suicide Brian Follett Walker (born 5 September 1954) is an Australian politician and medical practitioner.  At the 2021 Western Australian state election, Walker was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Legalise Cannabis WA member for the East Metropolitan Region. His term commenced on 24 May 2021. Walker was born in Malay...

TW: Suicide Marjane is a trauma-informed addictions and mental health counsellor with over 7 year’s experience in spiritual healing practices and ancestral plant medicines. Marjane grew up in France, completing a degree in Biology there, and then her Masters in Australia. Marjane undertook training as a trauma informed counsellor and has a strong understanding of the power of plants and medicinal...

Van is first and foremost a heart-led man who lives through an intention of self-responsibility. He was gifted the opportunity to live a childhood dream as a professional Rugby Union player in Australia and abroad over 13 years, and as a professional coach over 7 years nationally. Van worked in a theatre support role for Orthopaedics and devices for three years on retirement and fell passionately...

TW: Suicide Vanessa Bortolin is a retired accountant, mother to a teenage daughter and widow to her beautiful husband of 30 years, Franco, who she lost two years ago to suicide after his 3-year battle with treatment-resistant clinical depression. Vanessa had the foresight to begin documenting, via an excel spreadsheet, medication dosage increments and their side effects (total 19 different antidep...

Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses. In furtherance of this mission, The Mind Medicine Australia Podc...

Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering and suicides caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses. Mind Medicine Australia is a registered charity founded by Tania...

This podcast discusses the current state of research on the use of psychedelics in psychiatry, especially psilocybin, for the treatment of depression and other mental illnesses, including the precautions that must be taken before treatment, the standardized four-stage treatment model for depression, and the obstacles that must be overcome to use psychedelic therapy on a larger scale. Current Statu...

In this podcast, we will provide a brief overview of psychedelic-assisted therapy, including its therapeutic process and the psychedelic experience.  Support the podcast Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies Donate to Mind Medicine Australia In this episode: The definition of psychedelic-assisted therapy The three phases of the therapeutic process The importance of non-psychedelic ele...

In this podcast, we discuss what the next steps are, following the TGA's decision to change the classification of psilocybin and MDMA to enable prescribing by authorised psychiatrists. Support the podcast In this episode: The mission of Mind Medicine in light of the rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA for medical use in Australia effective July 1st, 2023. The podcast will shift focus towards a mor...

Professor David Nutt is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain. In this episode: The Endocannabinoid System THC, CBD and other cannabinoids CB1 and CB2 receptors The Entourage Effect Constituents of cannabis Medicinal Cannabis Support the podcast: Support the podcast Support Mind Medicine Australia's mission: Mind Medicine Australia Support...

Dr James Fadiman is an American psychologist and writer. Fadiman received a Master's degree and a doctorate in Psychology from Stanford University back in 1960. His friend and former Harvard undergraduate advisor, Ram Dass (then known as Richard Alpert), introduced him to psychedelics. Fast-forward 60 years and Fadiman is now known and acknowledged for his research and clinical work in psychedelic...

Katrin Preller received her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2013. After completing her PhD, she investigated the effects of psychedelics on self-perception and social cognition. Her research interests are centred around the neuropharmacology of emotional and cognitive processes in health and psychiatric illnesses, as well as (pharmacological) neuroimagi...

Professor Karl Friston is a British theoretical neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on brain imaging. Karl has been awarded with countless different prizes and accomplishments, and is considered one of the most influential neuroscientists of the modern era. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). F...

Dan Engle, MD, is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance.  Dan obtained his medical degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His psychiatry residency degree is from the University of Colorado Denver, and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship degree is from...

Lynn-Marie Morski, MD, JD is the president of the Psychedelic Medicine Association, host of the Plant Medicine Podcast, founder of Plant Medicine.org, and the medical director for Way of Leaf.com. Lynn-Marie is a Mayo Clinic-trained physician in family medicine and sports medicine, as well as an attorney and former adjunct law professor.  She started the Plant Medicine Podcast to bring scient...

Adam Gazzaley MD, PhD is a neuroscientist, neurologist, inventor, author, photographer, entrepreneur and investor. Adam obtained an M.D. and a Ph. D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, completed Neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley. He is now the David Dolby D...

Prof David Nutt is Neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. David is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. Nutt is the deputy head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. He and his t...

Dennis McKenna is an Ethnopharmacolgist, research pharmacist, lecturer, and author. Dennis is a founding member and director of ethnographic research at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization involved in investigating the potential of therapeutic use of drugs. He is the brother of the famous psychedelic advocate Terence McKenna. In this episode: Preserving indigenous practi...

Andrew Robb was Australia’s Minister for Trade, Investment, and Tourism. Currently, Andrew is the chairman of The Robb Group (corporate and investment advisory company) and is a board member for multiple organizations, including Mind Medicine Australia. He is the author of Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons, his memoir that explores the challenges of managing depression, political ambitio...

Nigel Denning is the Director and Counselling Psychologist at Integrative Psychology Nigel is a former Family Violence Co-ordinator for Relationships Australia and is the Deputy President of the In Good Faith Foundation. He has studied in the United States and Europe with Dr. Stanislac Grof, one of the founders of Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork. He has also helped build and del...

Lars Wilde is the President, Chief Business Officer, and Co-founder of COMPASS Pathways. COMPASS is a UK life sciences company that works to expedite the approval and delivery of mental health therapies to patients and focuses primarily on testing psilocybin for use in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). They have 22 trials running through the US and Europe for TRD. In this episode...

David Bryce Yaden, Ph. D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine in The Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research . David's research focus is on the psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopharmacology of spiritual, self-transcendent, and positively transformative experiences triggered with psychedelic substances and other means. Specifically, he is interested in...

Dr. Rachel Yehuda, PhD. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. This research includes the PTSD clinical research program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Centre. In this episode: Defining trauma D...