Program - PNP 26

Explore the structure of this year’s Psychedelic Neuroscience Workshop. The program combines keynote lectures, oral presentations, poster sessions, and informal exchanges — all designed to spark collaboration and deepen insight into consciousness research and neurobiology.

Informal Program

SUNDAY 26/04 Evening: Movie Screening of “Doctor on a Trip” 

About the movie: https://www.filmcenter.cz/en/films-people/4768-doctor-on-a-trip

Address: Míšeňská 71/3, 118 00 Malá Strana

Location: CAFÉ CLUB MÍŠEŇSKÁ | https://maps.app.goo.gl/W3za6msTBLfqXCPa8?g_st=ic

Time: 20:00

Limited space – first come first serve! 

Conference Dinner – MONDAY 27/04 Evening

Address: Puškinovo nám. 690/15, 160 00 Praha 6-Bubeneč

Location: Restaurace Na Urale | https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x470b9525dd6b8f55:0x22f5c07ddd43f435?sa=X&ved=1t:8290&hl=cs-cz&ictx=111

Time: 20:00

TUESDAY 28/04 Evening – A Conversation with Torsten Passie
and the Czech Psychedelic Society

Location: Gabriel Loci

Time: 18:30

Public event organized by CZEPS

 

Conference Program

Below you can find the updated program.

Speakers at PNP 2026

Keynote Speakers and Plenary Talks

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Mark Geyer

Center for Psychedelic Research, University of California San Diego, US

DMT: From Psychotogen to Psychotherapeutic

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Roy Salomon

Salomon Labs, Department of Cognitive Science, Haifa University, Israel

Trauma Under Psychedelics: Acute and Longitudinal Effects on Trauma Processing in Nova Survivors

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Sebastian Olbrich

Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich (PUK), Switzerland

Psychedelic-induced Changes of ANS and CNS Function and the Possible Associations with Treatment Outcome in Major Depression

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Bernard Lerer

Hadassah BrainLabs, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Psilocybin – NMDA Receptor Agonist Combined Treatment in Psychiatric Disorders: Hypothesis, Proof of Concept and Human Studies | Psychedelics and OCD: New Approaches

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David Erritzøe

Imperial College London, UK

Update from Imperial’s psychedelic program – hereunder initiatives related to clinical implementation

Clinical Seminars - Monday and Tuesday

Join one or more from the professional clinical seminars on Psychedelic-assisted therapy, led by Torsten Passie, Ingmar Gorman, and Eric Vermetten – in a small, intimate setting.

These exclusive workshops are especially relevant to clinicians – psychiatrists and psychotherapists; who will be given priority if the capacity is full.

PNP26 guests are warmly invited to participate in one of the workshops. 

Eric Vermetten
Eric Vermetten

Leiden University, Netherlands

“MDMA-Assisted Therapy in Trauma – is there Time for Group Therapy?”

Monday 14:15-16:45
[Small lecture hall]

Ingmar Gorman
Ingmar Gorman

Columbia University in New York | New York University (NYU), US

“What the Participants Taught Me: Cases at the Frontier of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy”

Tuesday 09:30 – 11:30
[Room 103.28 ‘Remediáční mistnost’,
Ground floor behind the piano]

Description: Drawn from direct experience in psychedelic clinical trials, this discussion uses sample cases to illuminate one of the field’s most pressing questions. Who’s doing the work in psychedelic therapy? The cases are woven into the current debate about clinical trial design, psychotherapy manualization, the role of psychotherapy, psychological support, and the inner directed model.

Torsten Passie
Torsten Passie

Hannover Medical School, Germany

“Psycholytic Psychotherapy in Practice”

Tuesday 14:20 – 16:20
[Room 103.28 ‘Remediáční mistnost’,
Ground floor behind the piano]

Live Presentations

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Tomáš Páleníček

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague , Czech Republic

Czech Psilocybin Law | PSY-NET COST Action

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Pedro Mediano

Imperial College London, UK

A unifying framework for the large-scale neuroscience of psychedelics

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Eyal Kurzbaum

Kurzbaum Environmental Biotechnology Lab, Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Israel

From Fruiting Bodies to Mycelium: Characterizing Tryptamine Variability and Optimizing Bioactivity in Psilocybe cubensis

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Jaroslav Hlinka

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) | Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic

Do we need complexity? Nonlinear and higher-order interactions in brain connectivity

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Romanos Κ. Antonopoulos

Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

Psychedelic Eleusis: From the ancestral pharmakon to modern medicine

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Philippe De Deurwaerdère

University of Bordeaux, France

The Psy-Net COST Action: Purpose and Expectations

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Dimitris Repantis

Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Ethical issues in psychedelic-assisted therapy

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Patrick Fisher

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Psychedelics distinctly alter brain entropy and complexity compared to psychostimulants

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Helena Aicher

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in the Swiss Limited Medical Use Program

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Ines Erkizia-Santamaria

Instituto de Farmacologia e Neurociências; Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa, CCUL (CCUL@RISE), Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal | Department of Pharmacology, University of the Basque Country EHU, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain

Endogenous serotonin modulates psychedelic-like effects of psilocybin in mice

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Joanna Kuc

University College London (UCL), UK

Speech-based experience sampling in psychedelic research

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Giovanni Rabuffo

University College London (UCL), UK

Frequency-Resolved Reorganization of the Brain’s Functional Repertoire under DMT Links Neural Dynamics to Psychedelic Experience

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Marek Nikolić

Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) | 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Biomarkers of Acute and Persisting Effects in Healthy Subjects Treated with Psilocybin

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Zeus Tipado

Maastricht University, Netherlands

What the world is seeing on DMT: Quantifying DMT visual hallucinations using the TRIPADO scale

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Adam Wojtas

Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ploand

When psilocybin meets a stressed brain: altered receptor signaling reshapes neurotransmitter release

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Claudio Agnorelli

Imperial College London, UK

Detecting neuroplastic effects induced by ketamine and DMT in humans

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Isis Rita Anzel Koutrouli

Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Psilocybin, Ibogaine and Mebofotenin in Cocaine Seeking: Lessons Learned from a Rat Self-Administration Model

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Giuseppina di Salvo

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, US | School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNs), Maastricht University, Netherlands

Histone serotonylation contributes to persistent psychedelic-induced epigenomic, transcriptional, and behavioral plasticity in vitro and in vivo

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Filip Trbušek

Maastricht University, Netherlands | 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Hyperscanning Psilocybin (HyPSI): Interpersonal Neural Synchrony during Shared Psilocybin Administration and Its Association with Social Cognition

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Joanna Vamvakopoulou

Division of Psychiatry, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

PsiloIMAGINE: Investigating the effects of a psychedelic-augmented mental imagery based intervention for young people who self-harm, an experimental medicine study protocol

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Danielle Kurtin

Imperial College London, UK

Mechanisms and action of psychedelic-enhanced neuroplasticity

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Čestmír Vejmola

Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Psilocin modulates sensory-evoked cortical dynamics: visual and auditory EEG signatures in the rat model

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Urszula Kozłowska

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences | Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Chronic administration of psilocybin for prevention of Alzheimer Disease progression – a study in 3xTg-AD mouse model of early AD

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Stanislav Jiříček

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) | Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic

Spatial (Mis)match Between EEG & fMRI Signal Patterns

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Vojtěch Brejtr

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) | Czech Technical University (CTU/ČVUT), Prague, Czech Republic

Global Context Integration for Pharmacology-Robust Preclinical Sleep Stage Classification

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Nikos Stefanis

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

Prescribing Art Therapy in Psychiatry – a large-scale RCT

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Kristýna Aleksić

3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

The role of 5-HT2A receptors in sleep architecture and memory consolidation in the animal model

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Brandon Weiss

Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research (CPCR), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, US

A pilot of psilocybin therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: Learnings about trauma memory engagement, rapidity of response, and comparisons with MDMA-AT and standards of care

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Ivana Chrtková

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) | Czech Technical University (CTU/ČVUT), Prague, Czech Republic

Towards a Novel Animal Model of Schizophrenia: Electrocommunication in Gnathonemus petersii

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Mauro Cavarra

Maastricht University, Netherlands

Analgesic effects of psychedelics: from survey studies to clinical trials

Poster Sessions

Poster sessions will take place during the coffee and lunch breaks, outside the lecture hall

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Klára Šíchová

Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Comparative analysis of acute behavioral effects of NBOMes and classical psychedelics in rats

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Filip Trbušek

Maastricht University, Netherlands | 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Touch of a loved one smooths the trip: How affective touch modulates LSD’s effects on neural complexity

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Ophir Netzer

Department of Cognitive Science, Haifa University, Israel

Neurobiological override? How acute stress modulates the subjective experience of psychoactive substances

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Anežka Hrubá

3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Neuroplastic Effects of Tryptamine Alkaloids from Psilocybe spp. in 2D Cell Models

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Emanuele De Gasperis

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Netherlands

Psilocybin microdosing as a modulator of TMS-induced cortical plasticity: a preclinical concept study

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Nina Miniariková

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Pharmacokinetics, systemic toxicity and acute behavioural effects of the synthetic opioid etodesnitazene in rats.

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Nikola Jajcay

Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic

EEG microstate dynamics during psilocybin intoxication relate to acute experience and persisting psychological changes

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Gorka Zamora-López

Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic

Perturbation-response analysis reveals the disruption of integrative and broadcasting networks in DoC

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Luka Dubravica

Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London (UCL), UK

Bridging predictive processing and EEG complexity in depression: An information-theoretic analysis

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Elena Bragagnolo

University of Bologna, Italy | University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark

Development of a UPLC-MS/MS method for the measurement of hair cortisol as a biomarker of stress

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Eva Filipovská

Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Effects of tryptamines on neuroplasticity in primary neuronal cultures

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Alexis Arragon

PsychedeliCare Initiative | Société Psychédélique Française, France

Current status of clinical trials related to psychedelics in France

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Ines Erkizia-Santamaria

University of the Basque Country, Spain | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Psilocybin induces time-dependent contrasting effects on hippocampal synaptic plasticity

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Emily Macrae

University of Oxford, UK

Individual-Specific Mapping from Resting to Psychedelic Brain States Using Whole-Brain Models

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Filip Novický

Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague, Czech Republic

Uncovering the spatiotemporal structure of neural avalanches through optimal transport and dynamic time warping

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Kelli Somelar-Duracz

Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Susceptibility and resilience to stress: investigating the long-term effects of in utero antidepressant exposure

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Danny Brown

University of Oregon, US

Using Hidden Markov Models to Capture Dynamic Markers of Psilocybin’s EEG Effects

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Jack Allocca

University of Melbourne, Australia

Pivotal Physical States (PiPS): The Somatic Equivalent to Pivotal Mental States

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Szabolc Máté Mészáros

Neurocognitive Research Center, Nyírő Gyula National Institute of Psychiatry and Addictology, Hungary

Neurophysiological Signatures of Cannabis Exposure: Regional Power Spectral Alterations Across Levels of Use

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Anna Pidnebesná

Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences | National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Mapping the Psilocybin State: from Topographical to Topological Signatures of Functional Connectivity changes

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Lucie Ladislavová

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Psilocin Microdosing Has Limited Behavioral Effects and Does Not Enhance Neurogenesis in Rats

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Michaela Knopová

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Developing a Phase-Level Codebook and Proposed LLM Pipeline for the Analysis of Naturalistic Psychoactive Experience Reports

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Eugenio Rossi

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic | University of Genoa, Italy

Developing a Phase-Level Codebook and Proposed LLM Pipeline for the Analysis of Naturalistic Psychoactive Experience Reports

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Allen Fishman

3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Developing a Phase-Level Codebook and Proposed LLM Pipeline for the Analysis of Naturalistic Psychoactive Experience Reports

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Chrysostomos Charalambous

Department of Pharmacology, 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Pharmacokinetics, Systemic Toxicity, and Acute Behavioural Effects of the Phenethylamine Derivative 25E-NBOH in Rats

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Martin Brunovský

National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Brain activity dynamics under ketamine: EEG complexity, aperiodic spectral component, and EEG vigilance as predictors of antidepressant response