Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
Founded: 2019
Founder: Roland Griffiths, Matthew Johnson, and colleagues
Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland
Website: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org
Category: Science & Research
About the Channel
The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research is the world's leading psilocybin clinical research program and the institution most responsible for the modern therapeutic psilocybin renaissance. The Johns Hopkins Medicine YouTube channel carries official presentations, patient testimonials, faculty interviews, and public education content from the center. Coverage includes the landmark depression, smoking cessation, end-of-life anxiety, and addiction treatment trials, as well as content on the mechanisms of psilocybin, integration therapy, and what clinical research with psychedelics involves. Roland Griffiths (who died in 2023) and Matthew Johnson are the primary researchers associated with Hopkins psilocybin work, and their presentations on the channel represent some of the most important public scientific communication on psilocybin available anywhere.
Editorial Context
If you are going to watch one institutional channel on psilocybin science, this is it. Hopkins produced the 2006 paper that restarted modern psilocybin research, the smoking cessation data, the cancer anxiety trials, and the treatment-resistant depression work. Their content is authoritative, carefully communicated, and clinically precise without being inaccessible.
Key Topics
- psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression
- smoking cessation (80% abstinence at 6 months)
- end-of-life anxiety in cancer patients
- mystical experience and therapeutic outcomes
- Matthew Johnson and Roland Griffiths research