Cognitive Neuropsychopharmacologist, Assistant Professor @DellMedSchool: Drugs of (ab)use, especially psychedelics, memory, skeptical 'til proven guilty
Austin, TX
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Check out my conversation with @HamiltonMorris on psychedelics, false memories, and more now out on YouTube!
piped.video/BuszGenKaxc?si=jDSW…
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Have you had a creative insight related to your work/hobby that you think was due to a psychedelic experience? Please complete this survey! Note that we don't want personal insights (e.g., "I should quit my job" or "I had a bad relationship with my boss").
tiny.cc/PsychedelicsInsights
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✨🧘🍄 New study 🍄🧘✨ Many people think that meditation & psychedelics might have similar effects. Our new study examines how beliefs & cognitive processes might be similar or different in consistent meditators versus psychedelic users
Share widely!
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“He acknowledges that there is “ego and investment” involved in defending his ideas.” How ironic…Excellent piece, @matthabusby!
The entropic brain hypothesis has been the leading explanation for how psychedelics work in the brain, but new research suggests it's not that simple.
New for @doubleblindmag
doubleblindmag.com/the-heate…
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Go check out the exhibit in Toronto before December!
How do psychedelics impact the brain?
There are a few leading theories, and Dr. @ManojDoss (Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School) explores one of them here.
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Came for @TVonTheRadio (& @BeaccchHoussse & @thestrokes), stayed for @AOC & @BernieSanders. What a family experience in NYC with my sister, brother-in-law, & my revolutionary wife @curiel_198.
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Note that if I’m not mistake, AtaiBeckley CEO @SriniGRao is co-author of the linked Journal of Neuroscience paper below in which they found a potential neurocognitive enhancement from a 5-HT2A drug. We’re currently testing whether this effect generalizes to human behavior!
Interesting when 1) a 5-HT2A agonist sharpened neural tuning/precision of working memory representations (jneurosci.org/content/22/7/2…) and 2) working memory capacity (rather than precision) tends to be more readily impaired by 5-HTA psychedelics compared to NMDA dissociatives.
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Interesting when 1) a 5-HT2A agonist sharpened neural tuning/precision of working memory representations (jneurosci.org/content/22/7/2…) and 2) working memory capacity (rather than precision) tends to be more readily impaired by 5-HTA psychedelics compared to NMDA dissociatives.
Ketamine Alters Tuning of Neural and Behavioral Spatial Working Memory Precision
biologicalpsychiatryjournal.…
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We got a new review/model on why we think psychedelics might be particularly useful in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders.
link.springer.com/article/10…
Good work @DrHughMcGovern on carrying this through the finish line.
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I was born in Texas, raised in Texas, currently live in Texas, graduated from UT (class of 2010), and now I'm faculty at UT, but I guess I'm a "problem," not a Texan (and by extension, not an American either 😔)
I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.
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New paper on the phenomenology of heightened feelings of familiarity under psychedelics!
1/ Happy to share our new study, published today, looking to better understand an intriguing feature of the psychedelic experience: Why can psychedelic experiences feel profoundly familiar, even when what is being experienced is novel?
@ManojDoss
& Akira O'Connor
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I had an incredible visit to Toronto, and it was such an honor to see my work on display at @mrcolinjfleming and his colleagues' psychedelic exhibit at the @ROMtoronto. They worked so hard on this, so please check it out before December 6! #lakeontario
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My chapter in the exhibit book! I should have taken more pics, but I had to capture the fact that they included @KiDCuDi among psychedelic music (something I 100% agree with!)
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Lastly, it was great catching up w/@Nickkadysh & meeting my soon-to-be co-author @davidwlawrence1. Watch this space for more bizarre psychedelic effects on familiarity!
Unrelated to David’s baseball connection but maybe related to psychedelics, check out the @TheDockEllis bar!
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Austin, TX & surrounding community:
We're testing the effects of psychedelics on brain function & cognition. This is not for mental health treatment, and there'll be several cognitive tasks (no lying on a couch or eyeshades), but you'll be supporting science! Please share!
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Finally out in @JOCN_Journal. We had hoped to inhibit the amygdala using transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) as a proof-of-concept that the amygdala is causally involved in emotional episodic memory encoding, but this backfired…1/10
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article-…
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2 decades ago, work by @The_Strange_Lab & others suggested a filtering function of the amygdala including less filtering in patients w/amygdala lesions. 9/10
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