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Psychedelics and Mental Health: A Population Study

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, August 2013
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Title
Psychedelics and Mental Health: A Population Study
Published in
PLOS ONE, August 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0063972
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Authors

Teri S. Krebs, Pål-Ørjan Johansen

Abstract

The classical serotonergic psychedelics LSD, psilocybin, mescaline are not known to cause brain damage and are regarded as non-addictive. Clinical studies do not suggest that psychedelics cause long-term mental health problems. Psychedelics have been used in the Americas for thousands of years. Over 30 million people currently living in the US have used LSD, psilocybin, or mescaline.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 808 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 181 22%
Student > Master 127 15%
Researcher 88 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 69 8%
Other 42 5%
Other 117 14%
Unknown 206 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 180 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 135 16%
Neuroscience 68 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 48 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 31 4%
Other 144 17%
Unknown 224 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1342. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 May 2024.
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#9,836
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#128
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Outputs of similar age
#37
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#4
of 4,699 outputs
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