A new center launched earlier this year will focus on developing a deeper understanding of the brain through the study of psychedelics. The Michigan Psychedelic Center, or M-PsyC, aims to advance multidisciplinary education, research, patient care, and community engagement related to psychedelics.
The center is bringing together academic faculty, researchers, health care practitioners, and students across the medical school and main campus to study psychedelics across the translational spectrum, from fundamental understanding to improved health. M-PsyC collaborators already cover a range of expertise — from neuroscience, psychiatry, pain medicine, and pharmacology, to psychology, social work, drug discovery, and the arts — with the center actively engaging units across the institution for additional partners.
“This topic is inherently multidimensional and has implications across so many different domains,” Mashour said.
Read more about M-PsyC in a story on the Department of Anesthesiology website.