Special issue of Neuron Neuron on consciousness, including a Neuroview piece by Claudia Passos Ferreira Claudia Passos on infant consciousness.

infant consciousness article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1j5Yo_KOmxK7…

special issue on consciousness: cell.com/neuron/issue?p…

Special issue of Neuron focused on CONSCIOUSNESS! Many articles addressing key dimensions of consciousness science, including a review on anesthesia and consciousness by George Mashour from the University of Michigan.
Consciousness: Neuron (cell.com)

In a podcast episode of StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2023 award winner Ben Rein, PhD discusses the neuroscience of empathy, psychopathy, and MDMA in the brain.

You can listen to the full episode here, or wherever you get your podcasts: startalkmedia.com/show/the-scien… #scicomm

We should expect risk for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy….it’s a major intervention proportional to the severity and mortality of severe PTSD. And like in any other field of medicine, we can’t mitigate risk if we haven’t measured and reported it.

Thx lore_nick for having me-psychedelic science Stanford Medicine is going places I'd only dreamt of - amazing collaborative network & exciting science that I hope will translate into better patient care

The War on Drugs has increasingly become a war on patients & physicians. As a pharma scientist & pain patient, I receive heartbreaking msgs of this nature far too often.

100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. This is more than diabetes, heart disease, & cancer combined.

How do #psychedelics alter our perception of reality, and what does that means about... reality?
Check out our latest #podcast episode, featuring the second part of our conversation on psychedelics with Boris Heifets (Boris D Heifets):
neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/psychedel…

Delighted to present at @sobp on placebo and nocebo with Boris D Heifets among others @urmson Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies

Beyond honored to share that I’m today’s guest on StarTalk !

We covered a lot: MDMA, empathy, social media, love, racism, and more. I hope that you might learn something, and I’m sure that you will laugh (thanks to Chuck Nice)

One more thing about the late, great Steve Albini. Here's a video of him apologizing for his fascist haircut. That is all.

Back in 2009 Reckless asked Steve to write something about record stores for record store day. He agreed & wrote this. We published it in the Chicago Reader as an advertisement

RIP Steve Albini, amazing musician, engineer, analog zealot and contributing author to the soundtrack of my youth

Moving beyond Timothy Leary and the counterculture, Stanford Medicine researchers delve into the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. Guided trips with trained professionals could pave the way for psychiatric healing by breaking rigid thought patterns. Explore the research:

Shameless plug for our study recruitment! Currently enrolling!

We need robust behavioral assays for #psychedelic drug development.

In this new study, Sam Woodburn systematically determined psilocybin’s effect on fear extinction as a function of dose, timing of administration, and serotonin receptors 🍄🐁

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Vivien Chevaleyre (1973–2024): Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

🧠⚡️Ecstatic to share our preprint –

Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits

biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Covering cingulate cell-types for pain + morphine pain-relief, a non-addictive gene therapy for chronic pain & our deep-learning pain behavior platform: LUPE

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Do you think Empathy, MDMA & 5-HT or Autism are interesting? Here is a🧵about our NEW PAPER! w/unpublished data & insider tidbits!
Thank you Ben Rein, PhD Jie Zhang parnazboroon Boris D Heifets Matt Pomrenze & twitterless colleagues science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Is the psychedelic experience essential for therapy, or can similar benefits be achieved without the trip? Stanford anesthesiologist Boris Heifets Boris D Heifets sheds light on this hot debate and the placebo effect in psychiatry. #psychedelics #neuroscience neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/psychedel…

Spent a sublime few days UC Berkeley w/ fellow #neuroscientist Christof Koch interviewing Michael Pollan on #psychedelics & food, Alison Gopnik on the developing mind, Dacher Keltner on #Awe , & Stanford University's Boris D Heifets on his novel experiments on the impact of psychedelics during