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Joshua Siegel

@realjoshsiegel

Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist, Father, Human, Philomath.

Good science is careful. Great science is playful.

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Hahaha well so much for participant anonymity. JK, you already crushed an NPR interview. Was great getting to know you during the study Scott. Hope you are well!

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Rigorously conducted clinical trials always include a placebo control. Give half the subjects a drug, the other half a placebo, and measure the difference between them compared to baseline. The whole idea here is to look for a pure "drug effect" that goes beyond the "expectancy

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“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his

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Excited to share this paper led by Broc Pagni Multidimensional Personality Changes Following Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy in Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder: Results From a Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial | American Journal of Psychiatry psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

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I keep thinking of this post. That desync essentially feels like death and this is when you see your primordial brain and all the imagery and symbolism. It’s like getting a peek at the underlying motivations that drive you unconsciously. It feels fleeting.

Martin Picard (@mitopsychobio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Deeply deficient system Medicine is great at saving lives with surgeries, antibiotics and other emergency-type tools But it is ignorant around healing processes required to sustain optimal health We need a proper Science of Healing and a vehicle to deploy the resulting

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Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network – WashU Medicine medicine.washu.edu/news/mushrooms…

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Vote for our Psilocybin study! statnews.com/feature/stat-m… Don't ask me why someone would make a March Madness for academic research. But they did. For the love of science, I guess.

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Incredibly fascinating talk by Mir Jalil Razavi! Cortical folding is driven by surface expansion. Tiny differences in cortical thickness and starting morphology drive patterning of the brain surface. This is crucial info to anyone who wants to localize brain function.

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It's terrifying to watch a tyrannical power grab in America. But also ... kind of fascinating... in a twisted way. Really brings the history books to life, huh?

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Major praise to the NYU Langone Health podcast team. I expected just a little internal thing, but they did an AMAZING job digging into the science and creating a great show. Check it out - YouTube (full-length): youtu.be/h8Thc-BDvZ0App… Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nyu… Spotify:

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"Effects of Psilocybin on Clergy..." The fact that this study was able to happen is impressive. Seing the published results is just ... incredible. "participants rated at least one of their psilocybin experiences to be among the top five most spiritually significant (96%),