Here's a CNN podcast excerpt from my interview with Sanjay! www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...

My work on drericgarland.com/about-m-o-r-e/ was featured in the book, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta's corresponding documentary, which will release on September 7 on CNN.

Postdoc will work on trials of mindfulness, psychedelics, and neurofeedback/neuromodulation for opioid addiction and chronic pain

Live and work here!

Preferred candidates would have experience working with patients with addiction and/or chronic pain, and strong statistical and writing skills. Neuroscience skills would also be valued (but not needed).

Thanks Kush - looking forward to our collaborations!

One thing that amazes me about these data is that the magnitude of MORE’s effect on increasing savoring in the brain is the same as the magnitude of the brain deficit in savoring in people with opioid use disorder.

The greater the deficit in savoring, the more intense the participants craved opioids. But then we showed we could restore their ability to savor with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement, as shown by EEG activity. And this increase in savoring capacity led to a decrease in opioid craving.

They showed blunted brain responses to savoring images like this one.

Here’s the new paper on JAMA Psychiatry, hot off the presses! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Thanks, happy to be here and share my work in this venue

We found using EEG that patients with OUD and chronic pain had difficulty savoring natural healthy pleasure, which was correlated with higher opioid craving. Then we showed that MORE normalized this savoring deficit, which in turn reduced opioid craving.

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