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Unlocking the brain: How Psychedelics Have Shaped Britain's Smartest Minds

Unlocking the brain: How Psychedelics Have Shaped Britain's Smartest Minds

Conway HallCamden ·Wed 2 Dec · 6:30pm
Poetry / Spoken WordFrom £20.00 + fees

A London evening where psychopharmacologist David Nutt and cultural historian Mike Jay discuss how drugs have shaped British scientific and literary thinking, with an audience Q&A and book signings. AI summary of the listing

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Some of Britain’s greatest discoveries didn’t come from the lab bench alone. They came from scientists, poets and thinkers who were willing to experiment on their own minds. In 1799, Humphry Davy was inhaling nitrous oxide in Bristol and recording what it did to his thinking, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge among the friends who joined him. Over 150 years later, Francis Crick went on from cracking the structure of DNA…

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