The Heifets Laboratory
Welcome to the Heifets Lab
Our research group is dedicated to understanding and improving on powerful, rapid-acting therapies for psychiatric disease, such as ketamine, MDMA and psilocybin. We bridge basic science and clinical trials, connecting neuroscience, psychiatry and anesthesiology in pursuit of highly effective, safe treatment strategies scalable to the millions of patients who need them.
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Mindbloom is now offering at-home injectable ketamine.
What say ye?
Thank you for asking. You seem serious. Yes, patient access is important. This isn't about access. Mindbloom is introducing people to minimally supervised injectable ketamine. This is a public health experiment. A few comments:
5. Let's be real, ketamine is fun! Not as addictive as nicotine or alcohol probly, but if you expose enough people... see also, China. People are saving your product, drying it and snorting it. Yes, a cost of increased access. Why also send them needles?
6. I could go on. Maybe it will all turn out great! Maybe everyone will use responsibly. Maybe a subscription model for ketamine is safe long term for large numbers of people. I'm struggling to understand why encouraging drug self injection is the obvious next step here.
Why socialize when you can spend all afternoon anesthetized on your own couch. What could possibly go wrong with injectable ketamine delivered to your door.
Today is Mindbloom’s biggest launch in 4 years: At-Home *Injectable* Ketamine Therapy
We’ve always known injectable ketamine is the safest, most effective option but we delayed rolling it out because we knew it would make it too easy for Big Pharma to attack us.
Now, with the…
"Jung" is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately dangerous psychologies with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively taken by literal turbonormies who unironically want to like "heal scientism trauma" and basically get oneshotted by gnosticism
Recruiting for this psilocybin study with study dates in Feb, March, April and so on. If you're local to the San Francisco Bay Area, please complete the pre-screener to see if you're eligible: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Kx0ICR0KzTOULA
Psychedelic mental health research is booming—but how do we keep up with rapidly evolving evidence? Our team proposes a living evidence synthesis approach to ensure clinicians, policymakers, and the public have access to the latest, most reliable data.
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There were so few opiate overdose deaths in the US in the 1990’s (under 10,000/year) that it’s hard to remember that it was pharmaceutical marketing and healthcare focus on pain that destigmatized the use of opiates and led to over 100,000/year dying from all drug ODs. What a…
Sleep people- any experience w home sleep staging via wearable that allows access to raw data? Thinking re @ouraring @fitbit @WHOOP