The Neuroscience of Psychedelics

“Genís Ona belongs to an extinct category of researchers: a truly interdisciplinary and essentially humanistic one. His career has taken him from psychology to pharmacology, including harm reduction and policy considerations. This seminal work teaches us with elegance and precision why the pharmacology of drugs matters and, more than that, how to be empowered by learning it.” * Bia Labate, Ph.D., anthropologist, educator, author, speaker, and activist *“As a university professor teaching courses on psychedelics, I seek intellectually accessible material for undergraduates. The Neuroscience of Psychedelics is an easy guided read, beginning with the key fundamentals of pharmacology, neuroscience and then an overview of the serotonergic psychedelics, empathogens, the dissociative, and atypical psychedelics and what we know currently of their neuroscience.” * Joseph Lichter, Ph.D., Director of Pre-Health Advising Office and Psychedelics Program Professor at *

Genís Ona, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in pharmacology research. An associate professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), he is a member of the Spanish Society of Psychedelic Medicine and of the working group on psychedelics at the Catalan Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles about psychedelic drugs. Currently working as a study coordinator in the psychedelic trials taking place at Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, Barcelona, and in the Medical Anthropology Research Center at URV, he lives in a house in the middle of the wooded Catalan mountains.