Yasmin Schmid

Yasmin Schmid is a physician who previously worked at the University of Basil Liechti Lab.

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Yasmin Schmid is a medical doctor specialized in general medicine and clinical pharmacology and toxicology. She worked for several years in the department of clinical pharmacology and toxicology at the University Hospital Basel and in the psychopharmacology research group of Matthias Liechti. At the moment, she is working as a physician in the emergency department.

In her research, she conducted several placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over studies concerning the effects of MDMA and LSD in healthy subjects, with special focus on the effects of these drugs on social cognition, but also acute and long-term effects. She is planning a study in patients with LSD in patients suffering from cluster headaches.

Notable Research Papers

• Long-lasting subjective effects of LSD in normal subjects (Schmid & Liechti, 2017)
• Acute effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in healthy subjects (Schmid et al., 2015)
• MDMA enhances emotional empathy and prosocial behavior (Hysek et al., 2014)

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In our database you will also find her as an author on more papers.

Media

• LSD and MDMA in healthy subjects and in patients during drug-assisted psychotherapy (Insight, 2019)