Switzerland & the ALPS conference was absolutely incredible. Breathtaking landscapes, delicious (and healthy) food, highly intelligent people (and lots of fun), and more psychedelic research than I realized. High recommend for a vacation and the academics.
www.alpsconference.com

Come see my talk today at 2:30 PM at the ALPS conference in Geneva!

Snuck a lil trick in on the blades for my bday and the homies made this lil vid.

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.
tiny.cc/Psychedelics...

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).

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.

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

Sometimes fancy science-y words are unnecessary (from Nature Reviews Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Flippin out in New Zealand

Been on my grind over the holidaze.

Been a minute since I got a lil reckless.

If you’re at #ACNP2024, check out our posters on focused ultrasound on Tuesday night. I’ll specifically be trying to explain my way out of an unexpected finding in which we inhibited the amygdala and somehow enhanced episodic memory encoding.

In PTSD, there is a traumatic recollection that seemingly fails to lose its hippocampal-dependency and perhaps constrains cortical learning. We suggest that psychedelics may bypass the hippocampus to drive adaptive cortical learning. Super speculative of course. 7/10