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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018

DMT Models the Near-Death Experience.

Christopher Timmermann, Leor Roseman, Luke Williams, David Erritzoe, Charlotte Martial, Héléna Cassol, Steven Laureys, David Nutt, Robin Carhart-Harris

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
77citing papers in PubMed
20.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 220 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Christopher TimmermannPsychedelic Research Group, Centre for Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Leor RosemanPsychedelic Research Group, Centre for Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Luke WilliamsPsychedelic Research Group, Centre for Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
David ErritzoePsychedelic Research Group, Centre for Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Charlotte MartialGIGA-Consciousness and Neurology Department, Coma Science Group, University of Liège and University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Héléna CassolGIGA-Consciousness and Neurology Department, Coma Science Group, University of Liège and University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Steven LaureysGIGA-Consciousness and Neurology Department, Coma Science Group, University of Liège and University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
David NuttPsychedelic Research Group, Centre for Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Robin Carhart-HarrisPsychedelic Research Group, Centre for Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Imperial College London · GBUniversity of Liège · BEWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences, which have been previously associated with the psychedelic experience and more specifically with the experience induced by the potent serotonergic,

Indexed as

absorptiondelusional ideationDMTNNDEN-Dimethyltryptaminenear-death experiencephenomenologypsychedelic

Identifiers

PMID30174629
PMCPMC6107838
OpenAlexW2887016029

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