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Franz X. Vollenweider

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Zürich
Verified email at bli.uzh.ch
Cited by 22775

A systems model of altered consciousness: integrating natural and drug-induced psychoses

FX Vollenweider, MA Geyer - Brain research bulletin, 2001 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence from neuroimaging and behavioral studies suggests that functional
disturbances within cortico-striato-thalamic pathways are critical to psychotic symptom formation …

The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders

FX Vollenweider, M Kometer - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
After a pause of nearly 40 years in research into the effects of psychedelic drugs, recent
advances in our understanding of the neurobiology of psychedelics, such as lysergic acid …

Acute psychological and physiological effects of psilocybin in healthy humans: a double-blind, placebo-controlled dose–effect study

…, U Grimberg, MA Benz, T Huber, FX Vollenweider - …, 2004 - Springer
Rationale Serotonin (5-Hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) receptors play an important role in
perception, affect regulation and attention. Pharmacological challenge with the 5-HT 2A agonist …

Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders

FX Vollenweider, KH Preller - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Renewed interest in the use of psychedelics in the treatment of psychiatric disorders warrants
a better understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the effects of these …

Serotonin research: contributions to understanding psychoses

MA Geyer, FX Vollenweider - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2008 - cell.com
The history of serotonin research is closely related to the study of hallucinogenic drugs that
function as agonists at serotonin-2A receptors. The fundamental idea that psychotic states …

Psilocybin induces schizophrenia-like psychosis in humans via a serotonin-2 agonist action

FX Vollenweider… - …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
PSILOCYBIN, an indoleamine hallucinogen, produces a psychosis-like syndrome in
humans that resembles first episodes of schizophrenia. In healthy human volunteers, the …

Acute effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in healthy subjects

…, E Grouzmann, KH Preller, FX Vollenweider… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background After no research in humans for >40 years, there is renewed interest in using
lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in clinical psychiatric research and practice. There are no …

Activation of serotonin 2A receptors underlies the psilocybin-induced effects on α oscillations, N170 visual-evoked potentials, and visual hallucinations

…, A Schmidt, L Jäncke, FX Vollenweider - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual illusions and hallucinations are hallmarks of serotonergic hallucinogen-induced
altered states of consciousness. Although the serotonergic hallucinogen psilocybin activates …

Psychological and cardiovascular effects and short-term sequelae of MDMA (“ecstasy”) in MDMA-naıve healthy volunteers

FX Vollenweider, A Gamma, M Liechti… - …, 1998 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Franz X. Vollenweider MD a , Alex Gamma MA a , Matthias
… those seen in the present study with MDMA (Vollenweider et al. 1997a). These findings are …

Positron emission tomography and fluorodeoxyglucose studies of metabolic hyperfrontality and psychopathology in the psilocybin model of psychosis

FX Vollenweider, KL Leenders, C Scharfetter… - …, 1997 - nature.com
The effects of the indolehallucinogen psilocybin, a mixed 5-HT 2 and 5-HT 1 agonist, on
regional cerebral glucose metabolism were investigated in 10 healthy volunteers with PET and […