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Leiden University

Netherlands
1 Paper

Leiden University doesn't have a dedicated research centre for psychedelics. However, several staff members from their medical centre and psychology faculty are working with psychedelics. Researchers here are working with other universities including Utrecht University as well as Compass Pathways.

Research Papers

1
Open Accessindividual

Microdosing psychedelics and its effect on creativity: Lessons learned from three double-blind placebo controlled longitudinal trials

This combined analysis (n=175) of three double-blind placebo-controlled longitudinal experiments investigated the effects of microdosing psilocybin (0.74 -; 1.71mg) on creativity and found that it increased the originality of their ideas while generating novel applications for ordinary things (divergent thinking). However, it did not increase the number of novel ideas, or their ability to detect features that are common across multiple things (convergent thinking).

Published
Journal
Neuropsychopharmacology
Authors
Fejer, G., Fiacchino, D., Hommel, B., Marschall, J., Prochazkova, L., Rifkin, B. D., Schoen, N., van Elk, M.