Psychedelics conference taps into creative cognition, episodic memory and the brain

29 Mar 2023 — New psychedelics research on the short and long-term effects on creativity, memory and treatment options reveals benefits on creativity while stressing caution on memory accuracy. Scientists dove into recent study findings at a symposium on psychedelics and cognition at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) in San Francisco yesterday. 

Manoj Doss, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago and speaker at yesterday’s conference, studies episodic memory, focusing on the effects of psychoactive drugs on emotional episodic memory.