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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Dark money in psychedelics?
As someone who’s always described @Josh__Hardman as one of the most perceptive, discerning, & impartial minds in the space (not to mention, thought of him as a friend)
Imagine my surprise to hear he’s been secretly funded by private billionaires
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My latest work is out!
We found that the dorsal cluster of the intercalated amygdala plays a key role in mediating avoidance behavior.
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Our latest study - psilocybin evokes structural neural plasticity, and we wanted to know how this maps onto pyramidal cell type-specific circuits to produce behavioral effects. 🍄🔬🧠
Link to @biorxivpreprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.02.621692v1
Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao.
Wondering how to pass the time while election results roll in? Gonna be chatting with @TehseenNoorani & @NicolasLanglitz about the relationship btwn the aboveground & the underground on Nov 6th at 3pm EST. http://tiny.cc/psychedelicmedunderground
"Psychological support" has never just been a matter of semantics.
@bita137 @TheBorisLab V-O-T-E!!!!!!!!!! Every single vote matters. 📣
Potential future Secretary of HHS who will oversee not only the FDA but the NIH and other public research and health agencies
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We leveraged the "mirror image" of psychedelics & anesthetics to test local & global theories of consciousness. See the new preprint by Rui Dai, Zirui Huang, George Mashour and others from the Center for Consciousness Science & Michigan Psychedelic Center.
A suuuuper BIIIIIG *thank you* to the @MindScienceFdn for supporting our research and for letting me be a part of such an amaaazingly interesting-fun-welcoming BrainStorm event!!! What important work you are doing by getting people interested in neuroscience 🙏
