The Science of Psychedelics with Prof David Nutt at Cardiff University

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The godfather of neuropsychopharmacology, Prof David Nutt, will be at Cardiff University in-person talking about how and why, in recent years, psychedelics have begun to recapture the attention of the scientific community. They are being talked about increasingly in the media for their seeming potential to treat depression, anxiety and other mental disorders. Professor Nutt will explain our current understanding of the nature and science of these drugs, covering possible psychological, biological and pharmacological mechanisms of action for the positive effects shown after psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.

18:30 - Arrive

19:00 - Talk with Q&A

20:30 - Network & socialise

Professor David Nutt an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. Until 2009, he was a professor at the University of Bristol heading their Psychopharmacology Unit. Since then, he has been the Edmond J Safra chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences there. Nutt was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines and was President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

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