Katherine MacLean, Ph.D., is a renowned neuroscientist and author of “Midnight Water: A Psychedelic Memoir.”
Katherine worked as a lead researcher for Johns Hopkins University, where she studied the effects of mindfulness meditation and psychedelics through the Shamatha Project.
While working as a research fellow and faculty member at Johns Hopkins, Katherine was apprenticed by two of the world’s top psychedelic therapists — Bill Richards, PhD and Mary Cosimano, LSW.
Some of Katherine’s Research:
- Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogenic psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness
- Factor analysis of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire: a study of experiences occasioned by the hallucinogenic psilocybin
- Intensive meditation training improves perceptual discrimination and sustained attention
- Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socio-emotional functioning
- Psilocybin-occasioned mystical-type experience in combination with meditation and other spiritual practices produces enduring positive changes in psychological functioning and in trait measures of prosocial attitudes and behaviours
- Cognitive aging and long-term maintenance of attentional improvements following meditation training
