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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A team at @StanfordMed has developed a reproducible method of using common anesthetics to generate a “continuous and profound positive dream state” in surgical anesthesia patients.
And these aren’t your typical dreams—they can be identified by unique EEG patterns, which "appear
I don't understand most of Stuart Hameroff's claims well enough to judge them. The parts about physics and computation that I do understand are unconvincing to me, but that does of course not mean that the parts I don't understand are wrong, too. Even if every argument of
@TheBorisLab @LiisaGalea @NicolaGrissom One of my main points in the article is that we shouldn’t only see SABV as valuable if sex diffs in mice map onto those in humans. It’s more important to gain knowledge about diversity in brain function, which could translate in any number of ways
Have to give credit to @ShanskyLab @LiisaGalea @NicolaGrissom among others for slowly changing my mind about sex differences in lab animal behavior. Still a mystery how we can translate across species when we can’t seem to do it reliably across sexes
I have a new Opinion piece out! I think the title kind of speaks for itself, and I’m really looking forward to hearing your thoughts. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223624001218?dgcid=author
Congrats on our team's new @Nature_NPJ digital medicine paper! Amazing work by co-first authors @JKim_1003 and @KimberlyLe24427 We found large language models outperform mental & medical health care professionals in identifying #OCD see Jiyeong's thread & https://rdcu.be/dOit4
After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a
If your partner cheats on you in a dream, why are you still mad when you wake up? I wrote about the stickiness of certain emotions from dreams, and what impact our dreaming life has on our waking life
Chk out our new collab paper w/ @LinTianPhD @chromism & many others. “Opioid biosensors v1.0”. Lots of applications. Encourage people to reach out, test them in ur applications, & ask ?. Congrats to co 1st authors: @JasonCDong1 @outRaajeous
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