A tutorial about “The empirical study of Altered States of Consciousness” that has been given at the ASSC22 conference are now freely available on Researchgate.

The ASDB project has been supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. A blog post [GERMAN] has been released about the ASDB and the valuable support of the Fellow-program free knowledge. Die Altered States Database: Ein Projekt aus dem Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen 

To privide details about the design, data and access to the ASDB a Data Report has been published in the Open Access journal Frotiers in Psychology.Find the full article here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01028/full

An interview about the construction and the vision behind the ASDB by Leonard Ruedin (idalab. agency for data science) can be found here: The Data behind Altered States of Consciousness: Interview with Timo Torsten Schmidt

The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) has its yearly meeting in 2018 in Krakow, Poland. This meeting brings together philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists who work on human consciousness. There will be a tutorial by Timo T. Schmidt presented, entitled: “The empirical study of altered states of consciousness: Common standards in the psychometric Read more about Tutorial “The empirical study of altered states of consciousness” at the ASSC22 conference in Krakow[…]

In the past couple of years, more and more people have gained interest in kambô, a treatment with the skin secretion of giant leaf frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) that is found in the Amazon and has been historically used there for healing rituals. There is hardly any scientific data on possible benefit or possible risk of Read more about KAMBÔ-survey[…]

After intensive data extraction, and double-checking we officially released the version 1.0 of the ASDB!The database currently (04/2018) contains data from N=6861 reports of ASC experiences, which were reported in N=315 datasets and comprise N=52 different inductions methods of ASCs. We will update the ASDB regularly to include new research.To foster Open Science and research Read more about Official release of ASDB version 1.0[…]

In der Arbeitsgruppe Kognitive Psychologie des Instituts für Kognitionswissenschaften der Universität Osnabrück wurde unter der Leitung von Timo T. Schmidt eine Online-Umfrage zur Charakterisierung und Quantifizierung halluzinogeninduzierter Phänomene erstellt.Haben Sie Erfahrungen mit klassichen Halluzinogenen wie LSD, Psilocybin, psilocybinhaltigen Pilzen/Magic Mushrooms/Zauberpilzen, DMT, Ayahuasca, Meskalin oder Peyote gesammelt?Dann laden wir Sie dazu ein, Ihr Erlebnis in dieser Read more about SPHINX: Study on Phenomena of Hallucinogen Induced Experiences [for GERMAN-speaker only][…]

A 30min talk given at the Breaking Convention Conference in London by Timo T. Schmidt on Phenomenoconnectomics and the ASDB  

Within the last weeks we  were busy to use the ASDB for meta-analyses. This means that we were pooling data from different studies together in order to look for similarities and differences between them.The main aim of these analyses is to find dose-response relationships. We want to test if the response to particular drugs can Read more about ASDB presented at the international ASSC-Meeting in Beijing, China[…]