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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Vamos, @RafaelNadal!
As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.
Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I…
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Becoming the youngest ever player to win ALL FOUR grand slam titles.
A record still standing today.
We've launched a new clinical trial exploring the efficacy and mechanisms of psilocybin therapy for depression in Parkinson's disease!
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Happy Veterans Day! Anesthesia Dream Survey #779, a male military veteran after beginning gender reassignment surgery, suffering from chronic PTSD from active service diffusing explosives. Memories processed as a dream but this time he has become a woman.
Thank you for…
Check out our new paper in which we review what is currently known on how psychedelics acutely and post-acutely modulate fear conditioning, extinction learning, episodic memory, and semantic memory and how such effects may speak to treatment of PTSD.
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3. Expand FDA Remit for “Psychotherapeutic Adjuvants”
After the FDA rejected MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD, Tom Insel, the former Director of the National Institute for Mental Health, penned an op-ed in STAT News titled Adding psychotherapy to drug…
If Mr. Kennedy is serious and has the president-elect’s support for rewriting the government’s relationship with psychedelics, here are five logical and appropriately cautious steps that will support a flourishing in psychedelic science and innovation in mental health treatments.…
Led by @StanfordReach scholar Dariana Gil-Hernández our @RodriguezLabSU team just published:
"Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Adults with Hoarding Disorder"
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X24000907
