Scientific publications

Journal articles

On minimizing risk and harm in the use of psychedelics (2025)

Shame, guilt and psychedelic experience: Results from a prospective, longitudinal survey of real-world psilocybin use (2025)

Knowledge, attitudes, and concerns about psilocybin and MDMA as novel therapies among U.S. healthcare professionals (2024)

Learning how to make use of dissociative therapies (2024)

At-home, telehealth-supported ketamine treatment for depression: Findings from longitudinal, machine learning and symptom network analysis of real-world data (2024)

Predictors of treatment outcome for parent-led, transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with emotional problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)

Naturalistic psilocybin use is associated with persisting improvements in mental health and wellbeing: Results from a prospective, longitudinal survey (2023)

Double-blind comparison of the two hallucinogens dextromethorphan and psilocybin: Experience-dependent and enduring psychological effects in healthy volunteers (2023)

Reconsidering “dissociation” as a predictor of antidepressant efficacy for esketamine (2023)

Toward synergies of ketamine and psychotherapy (2022)

Mapping consent practices for outpatient psychiatric use of ketamine (2022)

The conundrum of therapeutic intoxication (2022)

Brief, parent-led, transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral teletherapy for youth with emotional problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)

A qualitative inquiry of parents’ observations of their children’s mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)

Parental attitudes toward use of ketamine in adolescent mood disorders and suicidality (2021)

The relationship between subjective effects induced by a single dose of ketamine and treatment response in patients with major depressive disorder: A systematic review (2020)

Recovery from impaired working memory performance during chronic Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol administration to adolescent rhesus monkeys (2020)

Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder (2020)

Use of guanfacine for cannabis use disorder and related symptomatology (2019)

Guanfacine attenuates adverse effects of dronabinol (THC) on working memory in adolescent-onset heavy cannabis users: A pilot study (2017)

Persistent and long-term neuropsychiatric implications of cannabis use in adolescents (2017)

Paradoxical increase in synthetic cannabinoid emergency-related presentations after city wide ban: Lessons from Houston, Texas (2016)

“Just one bad high”:Considering synthetic cannabinoid outcome expectancies in adolescents (2016)

Borderline personality disorder and a spectrum of trauma (2015)

Textbook chapters

Featured media

The Atlantic article - What ketamine does to the human brain (2025)

Double Bling Magazine article - Are there benefits to feeling shame and guilt while tripping? (2025)

PsychedelicNewsWire article - Why guilt, shame during psychedelic trips could actually be positive (2025)

PsyPost article - “Bad trips” and guilt: Why difficult feelings during psychedelic use might actually be a good thing (2025)

PsyPost article - The promising psychological benefits of psychedelics and dissociatives highlighted in new study (2024)

PR Newswire article - Largest study of psychedelic medicine, with 11,441 Mindbloom clients, demonstrates effectiveness and safety of guided at-home ketamine therapy (2024)

Psychiatric Times article - Learning to use psychedelic agents with undefined protocols (2024)

Psyche Magazine article - The therapeutic potential, and addictive lure, of losing yourself (2024)

PsyPost article - The promising psychological benefits of psychedelics and dissociatives highlighted in new study (2024)

Mind Dive Podcast by The Menninger Clinic - Psychedelic therapies for healing and recovery with Dr. David Mathai (2023)

Interview with Psych Congress Network - Psychedelics: A Unique Psychiatric Paradigm (2023)

Tiny Matters Podcast by the American Chemical Society - What the (second) wave of psychedelics research could mean for mental health (2023)

Science Magazine article - Ketamine no better than placebo at alleviating depression, unusual trial finds. Science (2023)

Psychiatric Times article - Revisiting the hallucinogenic potential of ketamine (2018)