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Amy Griffin’s abuse memoir triggers row over ‘false memory’ The New York socialite said she had recovered buried trauma during MDMA therapy about being abused by a teacher. Psychologists have doubts about the practice

Check out my comment in The Times about MDMA and false memory:
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Have you had an insight related to your work/hobby after taking a psychedelic (not a personal insight)? We're running a survey backed by the Center for Minds to understand such insights. It takes ~30 mins & pays $15.
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How Psychedelics Affect the Brain: What We Know, and What We Think We Know Twenty years into the Psychedelic Renaissance, neuroscientists still struggle to understand how psychedelics work and how to rectify misconceptions about these drugs.

New easy-to-read article in The Scientist on how psychedelics work, inconsistencies in leading narratives (no punches were pulled…), and work coming out of our center on the impact of psychedelics on memory. With Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff.
www.the-scientist.com/how-psychede...

Consistent with our review, another study finding that psilocybin enhances fear extinction learning:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026.

Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats!

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7/ ... optimal scan time, so we recommend a scan time of at least 30 min. Compared with resting-state whole-brain prediction, the most cost-effective scan time is shorter for task-fMRI and longer for subcortical-to-whole-brain prediction.

Cross-Species Evidence for Psilocin-Induced Visual Distortions: Apparent Motion Is Perceived by Both Humans and Rats Psychedelics, particularly psilocin, are increasingly being studied for their mind-altering effects and potential therapeutic applications in psychiat…

Evidence that psilocybin produces perceived illusory motion across species:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some deep cuts from Harriet de Wit’s festschrift.

Not sure how I keep getting older while my PhD advisor stays the same age.

I learned 2 things today:
1) 55 yrs before Liechti's study (doi.org/10.1093/ijnp...), LSD trips were cut short at the 4-hr mark w/chlorpromazine, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
2) Despite being a 1st gen antipsychotic, chlorpromazine blocks 5-HT2A (hence disrupting LSD's effects).

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"The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure"

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YouTube video by Ant Medina Soirée

I had a clip in an Austin blading video! Check out the link (timestamped at 18:14 for my trick):
youtu.be/47AwH1WB52U?...

Methamphetamine modulates functional connectivity signatures of sustained attention and arousal Building on evidence that psychostimulants modulate whole-brain functional connectivity signatures of sustained attention, we examined how a single dose of methamphetamine (MA, 20 mg) changes network-...

Related work by @monicarosenb.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Important questions and important answers.

There’s More Than One Way to Bring Health Back: Divergent Effects of Psilocybin and Escitalopram Treatment on Emotional Brain Function in Depression | American Journal of Psychiatry PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.

Our (Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff) commentary on @mattwall.bsky.social's recent paper comparing effects of psilocybin and escitalopram on emotional responses in the brain.
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

If I were going to Denver, I totally would consider it (left the country 4 times in the last 6 months, so tryna avoid travel for a bit), though I was thinking about saving it for a far-in-the-future dream keynote with tenure situation. If that time ever comes, it’ll be motivation to get fit haha.

And it’s crazy cuz depending on the light, it’s actually quite purple. Had to do a lil psychedelic nod.

A lot of bad news these days, so I thought I’d share some good news. Last week, in a celebration of 150 people coming from all over the world to Buenos Aires, I married a revolutionary. Also, I got promoted to Assistant Professor. And yes, there were robots.

Could it be the case that attention (and thus attention network) is still impacted during an attention-demanding situation (especially given that the comparison here is drug-free rest, a condition in which people tend to fall asleep)?

Low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound amygdala neuromodulation: a double-blind sham-controlled target engagement study and unblinded single-arm clinical trial - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound amygdala neuromodulation: a double-blind sham-controlled target engagement study and unblinded single-arm clinical trial

Check out this transcranial focused ultrasound study by Greg Fonzo that I had a small part in. Online sonication of the left amygdala attenuated the BOLD response, and 3 weeks of sonication improved depression, anxiety, and PTSD:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Prototypical psychedelics during a traumatic event were protective against developing post-trauma systems compared to MDMA
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
However @royesal.bsky.social found the opposite that MDMA was more protective than prototypical psychedelics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If I'm not mistaken, the next Easter egg blunt won't be for another 62 years. Hazy holidaze

Wild af

Supreme Court Sides With Migrant Trump Administration Wrongly Deported A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that Kilmar should be brought home, and that's my future wife in the blue on The New York Times cover!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US to bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block a lower court order requiring officials to bring a man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador back to Maryland.

In bad news, however, the U.S. government is not complying with the judge's order and is trying to get the supreme court to block it...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/p...

I get to be this baddie's husband next month!
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“In a court of law, when someone is accused in such a violent and predatory organization, it comes in the form of an indictment, complaint, a criminal proceeding that has then a robust process so that we can assess the facts," she said. "I haven’t heard that from the government."

The judge ordered for Kilmar to be sent home! From my understanding, though, the government appealed, and it's not impossible that they won't even comply...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Donate to Aid for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's Family, organized by National Day Laborer Organizing Network ----En Español Abajo---- Kilmar is a loving father, husba… National Day Laborer Organizing Network needs your support for Aid for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's Family

Please consider amplifying this message, as the lack of due process in this case could set a brutal precedent. You can also help out Kilmar's family via this GoFundMe. #bringkilmarhome 7/7
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-aid-...