Matthew X. Lowe - Unlimited Sciences

Matthew X. Lowe, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

About

Overview

Matthew X. Lowe, Ph.D. is a trained research scientist and educator with over 15 years of experience researching factors that influence human behavior and brain function.

He is currently Senior Research Director at Realm of Caring, a cannabis research non-profit which seeks to facilitate and encourage the mainstream acceptance of transformative, plant-powered therapies to benefit individuals and families and serve healthcare providers as well as the hemp and cannabis industries. He is also Chief Scientific Officer at Unlimited Sciences, a psychedelics research non-profit using data-driven methods to inform public perception, education, policy, and practices for psychedelics use.

Additionally, he is Principal Investigator for the Cannabis & Health Research Initiative and a Lead Educator & Founding Member for the Oregon Psychedelic Institute where he lectures as a licensed Career School Teacher.

Dr. Lowe was named one of the top 25 emerging leaders in psychedelic research and modern theory.

Current Appointments

Lead Educator, Scientific Advisor, & Founding Member, Oregon Psychedelic Institute
Principal Investigator, Cannabis and Health Research Initiative
Senior Director of Research, Realm of Caring Foundation
Chief Scientific Officer, Unlimited Sciences

Past Appointments

Director of Research, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Surgery
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Education

(2025) Facilitator License, Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, Oregon Psychedelic Institute
(2024) Career School Teacher, Higher Education Coordinating Commission
(2017) Ph.D. Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Toronto
(2014) M.A. Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Toronto
(2010) B.Sc. Psychology & Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town

Recent Awards

(2024) Top 25 Emerging Leaders in Psychedelic Research and Modern Theory
(2023-2028) NIH/NIDA Funding Award, Principal Investigator
(2019) Postdoctoral Fellow Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Publications

‘Functional Mushrooms Saved My Daughter’s Life’: A Preliminary Mixed Methods Investigation of Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) and Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) for Epilepsy

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The Effect of Psychedelics on Individuals with a Personality Disorder: Results from Two Prospective Cohort Studies.

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Patterns of Internalizing Problems, Substance Use and Cognitive Flexibility Before and After Naturalistic Psilocybin Use: A Repeated Measures Latent Profile Analysis

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Matthew X. Lowe, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

About

Overview

Current Appointments

Past Appointments

Education

Recent Awards

Publications

‘Functional Mushrooms Saved My Daughter’s Life’: A Preliminary Mixed Methods Investigation of Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) and Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) for Epilepsy

The Effect of Psychedelics on Individuals with a Personality Disorder: Results from Two Prospective Cohort Studies.

Patterns of Internalizing Problems, Substance Use and Cognitive Flexibility Before and After Naturalistic Psilocybin Use: A Repeated Measures Latent Profile Analysis

Examining differences in the effects and contexts of naturalistic psilocybin use for White participants vs. participants of Color: A longitudinal online survey study

An Epistemic Network Analysis of Patient-Reported Experiences with Cannabis Among Cancer Survivors

Shame, guilt and psychedelic experience: Results from a prospective, longitudinal survey of real-world psilocybin use

Psychedelic Experiences Increase Mind Perception but do not Change Atheist-Believer Status: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

An Observational Study of Adjunctive Artisanal Cannabidiol Use by Adults with Treatment Resistant Epilepsies: Behavioral and Urinalysis Data

Long-term benefits to psychological health and well-being after ceremonial use of Ayahuasca in Middle Eastern and North African immigrants and refugees

Naturalistic psilocybin use is associated with persisting improvements in mental health and well-being: results from a prospective, longitudinal study

Cochlea to categories: The spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic auditory representations

Shared cognitive mechanisms involved in the processing of scene texture and scene shape

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sound Representations reveal a Hierarchical Progression of Category Selectivity

Artificially-generated scenes demonstrate the importance of global scene properties for scene perception

Temporal dynamics underlying sound discrimination in the human brain

Relating the perception of visual ensemble statistics to individual levels of autistic traits

Discriminating scene categories from brain activity within 100ms

Neural representation of geometry and surface properties in object and scene perception

Selective scene perception deficits in a case of topographical disorientation

Feature diagnosticity and task context shape activity in human scene-selective cortex

Sensory processing patterns predict the integration of information held in visual working memory

The scope of no return: Openness predicts the spatial distribution of Inhibition of Return

Processing context: Asymmetric interference of visual form and texture in object and scene interactions

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