Paulo Barbosa

Paulo Barbosa is a clinical researcher whose work, as represented in the internal database, focuses on the clinical, neuropsychological and psychosocial effects of traditional psychedelic use and early-stage psychedelic-assisted interventions for substance use disorders. His contributions include assessment of addiction severity among ritual ayahuasca users, evaluation of alcohol and tobacco use disorders in religious ayahuasca contexts, longitudinal studies of personality, psychopathology and life attitudes in ritual users, and psychological/neuropsychological characterisation of regular hoasca (ayahuasca) participants. He is also listed as involved in a proof-of-concept psilocybin-assisted treatment study for alcohol dependence, indicating an interest in translating observational and neuropsychological findings into clinical intervention research.

Barbosa's work is aligned with methodologies that bridge ethnographic/contextual considerations of ritual psychedelic use with standardised clinical and neuropsychological assessment, emphasising longitudinal design and addiction-relevant outcomes. Public bibliographic details were not returned in the supplied external search results; the profile above is synthesised solely from the provided internal publication and trial records and is intended to highlight his documented contributions to ayahuasca research and early psychedelic-assisted treatment trials.