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David Nutt

№ 4P6V

David Nutt

Professor · Imperial College London

London, UKWebsite

Research Areas

Clinical ResearchNeurosciencePsychedelics

About

Neuropsychopharmacologist and co-founder of Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research. Former UK drug policy advisor known for evidence-based approach.

Publications

  • Multiple papers on psychedelics and consciousness

Related Guides

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Attention Schema Theory (AST)

Michael Graziano's theory that consciousness is the brain's simplified model of its own attention process.

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