Vince Polito

Vince Polito is a Senior Lecturer, and leads the Altered States Lab in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. Vince has a keen interest in understanding how altered states of consciousness can impact on cognition and mental health, and he and his students have studied hypnosis, states of flow, meditation, yoga, chanting, virtual reality, religious rituals and psychosis.
Vince is best known for his work on microdosing psychedelics. He is developing a psychedelic research program at Macquarie that includes the world’s first magnetoencephalography (MEG) study of microdosing, and is leading one of Australia’s largest psychedelic clinical trials, which will investigate low doses of psilocybin as a potential treatment for depression.