Director, Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research; O. Lee McCabe Professor of the Neuropsychopharmacology of Consciousness; Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dr. Frederick Barrett is the Oliver Lee McCabe Professor in the Neuropsychopharmacology of Consciousness, Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, and he is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. For more than a decade, Dr. Barrett has been investigating mechanisms underlying the acute subjective and enduring therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs in heathy individuals and in patients with mood and substance use disorders. Dr. Barrett has published first-in-human studies exploring the effects of classic and atypical psychedelics on behavior and brain function, and has been featured in many national and internationally syndicated outlets.