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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I am excited to share our new paper published today @CellCellPress (link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jw%7ElL7PXqSA2). This is one of my favorite studies and took ~7 years to complete. In early 2018, we started the project, aiming at understanding the neural plasticity of the Winner effect. 1/6
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Can anesthesia dreams be used to help treat PTSD?
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In this Perspective the authors discuss the methodological considerations for selecting suitable control conditions in psychedelic drug trials and the neurobiology of placebo and expectation effects
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Peooooople!!! The voting is open!!! Check out the video of our anesthesia dreaming project with @TheBorisLab and vote:
Thank youuu in advance!!! 🙏🙏✨️
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Our latest work is now in press @NeuropharmJ !
Nitrous Oxide Induces Hypothermia and TrkB Activation: Maintenance of Body Temperature Abolishes Antidepressant-Like Effects in Mice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390824003411
We did a small open-label pilot trial of single-dose psilocybin for U.S. military Veterans with severe treatment-resistant depression. I do think our presentation of the data is quite reasonable. Hard to manage expectancy, but we did not find miracles. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032724016227
The Psychotherapy in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy. In this Viewpoint, lead by the marvellous @IoanaA_Cristea, we argue that the psychotherapy component plays a critical role in assessing the validity of the trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.