Overview
- Film Synopsis: Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago. The Science on Screen® grant initiative brings science to cinemas nationwide by pairing current and classic films with expertise from the world of science, technology, and medicine.
- Dr. Peter Hendricks will present “Psilocybin as Medicine” as a post-screening discussion following the film.Dr. Hendricks is University Professor, Heersink Endowed Chair of Psychiatry, and Director of Psychedelic Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a licensed clinical psychologist with a longstanding interest in addiction. He is particularly interested in the development of novel and more efficacious interventions for substance use disorders and comorbid conditions, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and mechanisms of change.He also has a longstanding interest in psychedelics, including their use in clinical settings, potential therapeutic applications and risks, epidemiology, and effects on brain functioning. He completed the first ever randomized controlled trial of psilocybin in the treatment of cocaine use disorder, and serves as PI of a NIDA-funded study of psilocybin in the treatment of tobacco dependence (U01DA052174-01A1). Furthermore, he is PI of a randomized controlled trial of psilocybin in the treatment of fibromyalgia and CO-I of a large, multisite randomized controlled trial of psilocybin for treatment resistant depression with the VA Health System.
