Huseyin is an External Ph.D. candidate at the Cognitive Psychology Unit. He has obtained a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (First Class Honours) degree from Lviv National Medical University, and a master’s degree in Brain Sciences (with Distinction) from the University of Glasgow. His research interests include altered states of consciousness, psychedelics, predictive processing, and neuro/psycholinguistics. His Ph.D. project, supervised by Dr. Michiel van Elk, aims to investigate the neural and behavioral effects of psilocybin on language processing by using neuroimaging, naturalistic and ecologically valid measures, and advanced data analysis methods.
We are based at the Cognitive Psychology Section at Leiden University. We study Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual and Mystical experiences by using an interdisciplinary research approach.