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BDMJ reports grants from the PSI Foundation, the University of Toronto and CIHR. MIH receives research support from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), CAMH Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, the PSI Foundation, and the University of Toronto. He has provided consultancy to Mindset Pharma, PsychEd Therapeutics, and Wake Network.
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Jones, B.D.M., Husain, M.I. Neural effects of psychedelics: Complexity the key word. Neuropsychopharmacol. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01856-9
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