Leveraging meditation research for the study of psychedelic-related adverse effects.
International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) December 1, 2024 Roman Palitsky, Nicholas K Canby, Nicholas T Van Dam et al. 6 citations
Research on adverse effects (AEs) of psychedelics has been limited, leading to underspecified profiles and potential undercounting. This article argues that meditation-related AE research, which shares phenomenological and contextual features with psychedelic AEs, offers valuable insights. An integrative review of both fields is presented, recommending that meditation AEs serve as a comparator condition. The authors propose adopting detailed, comprehensive, user-informed, impact-based, standardized, unbiased, and representative measures of AEs, along with examining factors that influence their impacts and trajectories, to advance psychedelic AE research.