Recent & Upcoming Talks

2023

Low dose psychedelics: Promise or placebo?

The use of low doses of psychedelic substances (microdosing) is attracting increasing interest. Proponents of microdosing claim a wide …

Science Week 2023: Microdosing and Mental Health

Join in an interesting Science Week conversation between cognitive psychologist Dr Vince Polito and journalist Gemma Conroy as they …

The Weird History of Psychedelics

The psychedelic renaissance is in full swing, but along with research into new treatments, on the fringes of science there have been …

The clinical and cognitive enhancement potential of microdosing psychedelics

2022

What we know so far about microdosing

Microdosing has exploded in popularity over the past six years. A microdose can be 1/10th or less of a recreational dose and users will …

The state of microdosing science: What we know and where we need to go next

The use of low doses of psychedelic substances (microdosing) is attracting increasing interest. Proponents of microdosing claim a wide …

Psychedelic promises

Join artists, curators and scientists as they discuss how the utopian visions and legal difficulties of psychedelic drugs impacted art …

2021

Microdosing: A Pathway to psilocybin mental health treatment

The therapeutic potential of microdosing with psychedelic medicines. This panel will discuss the benefits and challenges of Microdosing …

2020

Placebo or Panacea? Experiences and Beliefs of People who Microdose Psychedelics

Psychedelics are making their way back into mainstream science. High profile research teams are publishing findings in top journals …

Australian Psychedelic Research Panel

I’m facilitating a panel on Australian Psychedelic Research Panel as part of Entheogenesis Australias Garden States

Commission for The Human Future

Roundtable on Surviving and Prospering in The 21st Century

2019

Hypnotic models of passivity delusions as a window in to the sense of agency

Hypnotised individuals often experience agency alterations whereby their actions feel effortless. This has led researchers to develop …

Sydney Science Festival | Science at the Edge of Consciousness

What lies beyond the edges of our normal everyday waking consciousness? Join Dr Vince Polito for a trip through ancient and modern …

Sydney Science Festival | A Night of Illusions

Sydney Science Festival favourite ‘A Night of Illusions’ returns in 2019 with another mind-bending world of perceptual and cognitive …

Psychedelic Science: A new frontier in mental health

What do psychedelics have to do with mental health? From depression to anxiety, and trauma to addiction, research is increasingly …

2018

Placebo or panacea? Expectations and experiences of people who microdose psychedelics

After a long period of absence from the scientific literature, experimental studies involving psychedelic substances are reappearing. …