Rate My Professor Isabel Wießner

Isabel Wießner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Brain Institute of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil, where she investigates the effects of DMT and ayahuasca on perception, imagination, suggestibility, and brain activity using EEG. She earned her doctorate in Mental Health Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, during which she led Brazil’s first double-blind, placebo-controlled human study on the effects of LSD on thinking, language, creativity, cognition, and psychotic and therapeutic experiences. Prior to that, she completed a master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Jena in Germany, examining the effects of hypnosis on pain perception and brain activity via EEG. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Konstanz in Germany, where her research focused on the effects of deep relaxation and sleep on memory and brain activity measured with MEG.

Wießner serves as Scientific Director at the Centro de Aperfeiçoamento em Medicina Psicodélica (CAMP) and is affiliated with the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory. Her work centers on psychedelics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, creativity, and altered states of consciousness. She has contributed to research on ayahuasca, DMT, and LSD in both healthy volunteers and clinical populations, including studies on language processing and structural brain connectivity. No major awards, fellowships, editorial roles, or specific committee appointments are documented in official sources.