The Parsons Research Center for Psychedelic Healing

The Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research ( the Center), located at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Mount Sinai) and the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (the Bronx VA), was launched in September 2020 to examine the therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds, such as MDMA and psilocybin, for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related symptoms. The Centers mission is to perform rigorous clinical trials on existing and novel psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies in trauma survivors and to apply state-of-the-art scientific methods to understand their mechanism of action. The Center also seeks to provide education and training to therapists, medical residents, and trainees to position them to work with these therapies. Dr. Rachel Yehuda, the Centers Director, is a recognized leader in the field of traumatic stress studies. She is both an endowed Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology of Trauma at t...