Kim Oorsouw
Psychopharmacology Researcher
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Research Footprint
Kim Oorsouw appears in 11 tracked papers (2018–2024), most studied alongside Ayahuasca, DMT and 5-MeO-DMT, across Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorders and Creativity.
Most-cited paper: Sub-acute and long-term effects of ayahuasca on affect and cognitive thinking style and their association with ego dissolution (213 citations).
Frequent co-authors: Johannes Ramaekers, Kim van Oorsouw and Nathalie Mason.
Background & Research
Kim van Oorsouw is a researcher specialising in the psychopharmacology and clinical effects of classic and non‑classic psychedelics, with a particular emphasis on naturalistic and ceremonial contexts. Van Oorsouw has collaborated extensively with groups led by J.G. Ramaekers, K.P.C. Kuypers and others on observational and neuroimaging studies, investigating persisting psychological outcomes following ayahuasca use (including effects on empathy, creative thinking, decentering and well‑being), cortical structural and functional signatures of repeated ritualistic intake, and acute and longer‑term outcomes after single inhalations of natural 5‑MeO‑DMT preparations. These projects combine behavioural assessments with brain imaging to characterise both subjective and objective correlates of psychedelic experience.
Key Impact
Noted for empirical work on naturalistic psychedelic use and neuroimaging studies that probe lasting psychological and neural effects of compounds such as ayahuasca and 5‑MeO‑DMT, and for contributions to methodological rigour in psychedelic science.
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