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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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 🙏
And a warm *thank you* to you all, dear friends and followers, for all your invaluable support 🙏🙏✨️
We, the Dream Team (@TheBorisLab, @drpuppychow) are excited to continue working on ways to engineer transformative dreams using anesthesia 🌠✨️
The failure of claims made by psychedelic drug enthusiasts to show confirmation in controlled clinical trials was an important reason that this line of research was abandoned in the 1960s.
I wrote about something that was honestly kind of painful for me to accept: much of the science behind psychedelics is quite shaky
Retrospective uncontrolled real world study of ketamine for PTSD, flush with excitement at the size of their cohen’s d. These data sets would be much more useful if they included any safety data… did I miss it?
Congrats to Jasper on the best abstract award for our Stanford anesthesia dream PTSD research at the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine meeting! Research and patients are going to benefit.
