Cavanna, Roberto (1927-)

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Cavanna, Roberto (1927-)

Biochemist, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. He was born November 3, 1927, in Rome, and educated at the University of Rome (Ph.D., chemistry, 1949). Cavanna investigated connections between states of consciousness affected by psychopharmacological and psi phenomena and edited several books on consciousness studies.

Sources:

Cavanna, Roberto, ed. Psi Favorable States of Consciousness. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1970.

Cavanna, Roberto, and Emilio Servadio. ESP Experiments with LSD 25 and Psilocybin. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1964.

Cavanna, Roberto, and Montague Ullman, eds. Psi and Altered States of Consciousness. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1968.