Can the healing power of psychedelics work without the trip? Boris D Heifets is testing that question—by putting patients to sleep. Catch the story on NPR's Short Wave podcast: hubs.ly/Q03h5jwc0

Luppi, A.I., Golkowski, D., Ranft, A. et al. General anaesthesia decreases the uniqueness of brain functional connectivity across individuals and species. Nat Hum Behav (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41562… rdcu.be/eh4iu

Shortly before he married the love of his life (who happened to be his cousin) and sired 10 children with her, the young Charles Darwin made a list of the pros and cons of marriage themarginalian.org/2012/08/14/dar…

"Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness." Some cogitations on the ARC-COGITATE adversarial collaboration, the first results from which appeared yesterday in nature nautil.us/inside-the-big… .Nautilus Magazine

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Our team is using a common anesthetic to induce altered states of consciousness which may help treat PTSD. Max Feinstein Mount Sinai Anesthesiology made a great YouTube vid that explains the links between anesthesia, psychedelics and PTSD. Big thx to Pilleriin Sikka and Harrison Chow, M.D., M.S.

"In this video, [Max Feinstein] visit[s] a research lab that is studying what happens to the brain under anesthesia, and how that might help people with PTSD." A great weekend watch... youtube.com/watch?v=dmp5dy…

㊗️ our paper was finally accepted by Nature Communications! Data & paper are already accessible from here: DREAM: A Dream EEG and Mentation database osf.io/preprints/psya… Thanks all coauthors for contributing the data! It was a really long journey to arrive here...

Well after over a decade of my ramblings in the OR about manufactured anesthesia dreaming having a possible therapeutic effect on PTSD - well we are funded and approved to test this clinical hypothesis in our dream lab. If you or somebody you know has PTSD (the stuff of living

We worked so well as a team for the #GRCPsychedelics Vlad Vyazovskiy Dr Melissa Herman Vidita Vaidya and congrats to Boris D Heifets and Mikael Palner, who will be the future vice-chairs!

Great panel this morning on the human and clinical studies of psychedelics - my impression is we have come a long way in the last few years in terms of design and quantification #GRCPsychedelics

Better late than never: The recent #GRCPsychedelics was really marked for me by two key moments: my lab delegation (past, present & future) attempting the can-can, and Frederick Barrett figuring out my phone camera

Dr. Max Feinstein visited Stanford's Dream Lab to explore Boris Heifets' research on anesthesia-induced dreams. By removing surgery from the equation, Heifets’ team studies how these brain states arise and how they might be harnessed for mental health. bit.ly/45Bu8IR