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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📝 Viewpoint: High-dose #psychedelic #clinicaltrials remain poorly masked, which limits isolation of pharmacological effects from expectancy effects.
More aggressive active comparators and reduced disclosure may strengthen causal inference.
https://ja.ma/4y5fFlG
Thought-provoking approach to address the massive unblinding and expectation effects that render psychedelic trials impossible to interpret from an efficacy perspective.
@stanfordanes is hiring and we are looking for neuroanesthesiologists in particular! Please see https://facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/anesthesiologist-stanford-university-california-united-states Competitive pay, great location in the Bay Area (tons of sun and outdoor activities), generous housing assistance programs, & collegial work environment!
Launching : a living bibliography of placebo and nocebo research. New papers screened & tagged daily by design, population, outcome and findings, with a searchable database (currently about 5,000 papers), an interactive researcher map, events, news and
Science of Placebo
A research hub for the science of placebo and nocebo effects: a daily-updated feed of new papers, a searchable t...
scienceofplacebo.org
Can consciousness be studied in the operating room?
More positive news on psychedelics: psilocybin doses before cancer chemotherapy protects neurons and helps prevent peripheral neuropathy in the experimental model @ScienceMagazine
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6116
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aek3865
Psilocybin is already being studied to treat mental health conditions such as anxiety, addiction and PTSD. But can it also prevent nerve pain? A new study offers a tantalizing clue.
‘Unparalleled’ study finds psilocybin protects against nerve damage from chemotherapy
The findings, which were made in mice, may offer a new way to prevent a common chemotherapy side effect that can last well beyond treatment
spklr.io
New paper from our @TrPR_Program at @UCSF_BCHSI
We compared the effects of psilocin vs. psilocybin. People often don't know, but psilocybin is actually not what makes you trip, it is psilocin, psilocybin's metabolite! Here we found that ... well, they are pretty much the same