Nicolas Sireau - The use of psilocybin to treat OCD & future OCD treatments

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The use of psilocybin to treat OCD & future OCD treatments.

In this talk, I will talk about the pressing need for OCD treatments and how psychedelics such as psilocybin play a role in treating OCD. OCD is a common, chronic and long-lasting mental health condition in which a person experiences uncontrollable, intrusive and reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviours (compulsions) where they feel the urge to repeat over and over, in the attempt to temporarily relieve the unpleasant feelings brought on by the obsessive thought.It affects 2-3% of the world population.

BIOGRAPHY
Nick Sireau, PhD, is co-founder and Chair of Orchard OCD, a medical charity that funds research into obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a common yet debilitating mental health condition. Orchard OCD is funding the first ever study in the UK of psilocybin for OCD, under the leadership of Prof David Nutt at Imperial College. Nick suffers from OCD himself and has experience of taking psychedelics for mental health.

He is also the CEO and Chair of Trustees at the AKU Society, a patient group that helps people with AKU, a rare genetic disease affecting both his children. He is also co-founder of Sirgartan Therapeutics, a biotech that focuses on new treatments for OCD. Nick has a BA from Oxford University, an MSc in management studies from the Lyon Graduate School of Business and a PhD in social psychology from City University. He is a fellow of the Ashoka Fellowship of Social Entrepreneurs. Nick is also a psychedelic trance DJ and producer under the artist name NIXIRO.