Intact neurophysiological markers of death denial in long-term ayahuasca users
These findings provide preliminary evidence that while ayahuasca may alter how humans interact with the theme of death on conceptual and affective levels of cognitive processing, on automatic, perceptual unconscious levels of self-specific processing, death-denial processes appear to remain intact.
Authors
- Aviva Berkovich‐Ohana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2549-0168)
- Yair Dor‐Ziderman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2005-3770)
- Jonathan David (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-4920)
Institutions
- IBM Research - Haifa (IL)
- University of Haifa (IL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Psychopharmacology
- Published
- 2025-11-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-025-06963-z
- Primary Topic
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00