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Bryan Roth
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James Black: 'the prismatic qualities of the assay distort our view in obscure ways and degrees'
Pinned
My thoughts on psychedelic drugs and the risk of brain cancer and valvular heart diesease: open.substack.com/pub/zendudes...
Psychedelics can both cause brain cancer and heart disease?
Perhaps.....
open.substack.com
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A fun interview about the polypharmacology of #psychedelics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kn...
Is the 5-HT2A Receptor the Key to Psychedelic Effects?
YouTube video by Xylo Bio
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Postdoctoral fellowship available in structure guided drug discovery in @RothLabUNC
Please RT
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Postdoctoral fellowship available in structure guided drug discovery in @RothLabUNC
Please RT
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Psilocybin decreases reward-seeking behavior accompanied by increased activity of parvalbumin neurons with perineuronal nets in the medial prefrontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.696123v1
December 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A fun interview about the polypharmacology of #psychedelics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kn...
Is the 5-HT2A Receptor the Key to Psychedelic Effects?
YouTube video by Xylo Bio
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Mapping cellular targets of covalent cancer drugs in the entire mammalian body: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping cellular targets of covalent cancer drugs in the entire mammalian body
vCATCH is a volumetric tissue labeling technique enabling cellular-resolution mapping of covalent drug targets throughout the entire mammalian body.
www.cell.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Neurochemical and Neurophysiological Effects of Intravenous Administration of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine in Rats www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Neurochemical and Neurophysiological Effects of Intravenous Administration of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine in Rats
N , N -dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a serotonergic psychedelic that is being investigated clinically for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Although the neurophysiological effects of DMT in humans...
www.jneurosci.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice
www.nature.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Lysergic acid diethylamide pretreatment prolongs brain-stimulation induced neural activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694720v1
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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My thoughts on psychedelic drugs and the risk of brain cancer and valvular heart diesease: open.substack.com/pub/zendudes...
Psychedelics can both cause brain cancer and heart disease?
Perhaps.....
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
My thoughts on psychedelic drugs and the risk of brain cancer and valvular heart diesease: open.substack.com/pub/zendudes...
Psychedelics can both cause brain cancer and heart disease?
Perhaps.....
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Reposted by Bryan Roth
Born #OnThisDay in 1922, Esther Lederberg was the first to isolate the lambda phage in 1951. She characterised the lysogenic phase, whereby the phage are able to integrate into the bacterial genome, staying dormant. This discovery made them a model tool of study, leading to many more breakthroughs.
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Bryan Roth
This article suggests that cancer treatment contributes to mutagenesis:

"More than 25% of driver mutations in normal tissue exposed to systemic anti-cancer therapy, including in TP53, could be attributed to treatment."
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Brainstem circuit for sickness-induced sleep | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Brainstem circuit for sickness-induced sleep
Brainstem circuit mediates sickness-induced NREM sleep.
www.science.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The YouTube lectures
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The YouTube lectures
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Relates to this paper:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Intriguing--YES!
Surprising--perhaps not so much
One implication: do not take psychedelics if you have glioma.....

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Intriguing--YES!
Surprising--perhaps not so much
One implication: do not take psychedelics if you have glioma.....

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Serotonergic neuron-glioma interactions drive high-grade glioma pathophysiology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693579v1
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Artificial hibernation uncovers distinct synaptic engram architecture for memory retention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.692927v1
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Sympathetic functional units encoded by genetically defined postganglionic neurons: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Sympathetic functional units encoded by genetically defined postganglionic neurons
Wei et al. found two CG-SMG sympathetic subpopulations: Calb2-positive neurons project to gut muscle, forming endings at myenteric ganglia to regulate motility, and Nxph4-positive neurons innervate or...
www.cell.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Serotonin Engages Divergent 5-HT Receptor Pathways for Cell Type-Resolved Modulation of Prefrontal Layer 5 Microcircuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.691770v1
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Cool!
Brain-wide synaptosome profiling reveals localized mRNAs that diversify synapses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.07.692806v1
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A useful technique!
Acute in vivo proximity labeling for membrane targeted proteomics in neuronal circuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.691871v1
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM