Box 89

Scope and Contents This series contains clippings from popular and scholarly newspapers and magazines, the majority of which pertain to psychedelic research and Nichols's career. Topics include LSD, MDMA, drug scheduling, as well as the prohibition, misuse, and re-emergence of psychedelic psychotherapy. Other topics include psychedelics' potential to treat Parkinson's disease, to reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients, and to foster understanding of the structure of the brain and personality. Several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains clippings from popular and scholarly newspapers and magazines, the majority of which pertain to psychedelic research and Nichols's career. Topics include LSD, MDMA, drug scheduling, as well as the prohibition, misuse, and re-emergence of psychedelic psychotherapy. Other topics include psychedelics' potential to treat Parkinson's disease, to reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients, and to foster understanding of the structure of the brain and personality. Several...

Scope and Contents The David E. Nichols papers document David E. Nichols’s career as a medicinal chemist and pharmacologist at Purdue University from 1974 until 2012, as well as his subsequent professional and public activities. The collection features materials pertaining to Nichols’s groundbreaking research on hallucinogens (psychedelics), serotonin receptors, dopamine agonists, MDMA neurotoxicity, and MDMA analogues. The collection also features documents pertaining to the founding and proceedings of the...