Drs. Zirui Huang, George Mashour, and Tony Hudetz publish new work in Nature Communications today. They identify the role of core-matrix architecture and human thalamocortical connectivity in conscious state transitions induced by the anesthetic propofol. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨New work in Nature Communications from Drs. Zirui Huang, George Mashour & Tony Hudetz.🚨 The U-M Consciousness & Psychedelics researchers use propofol to uncover the interactions between the thalamus and cortex that underlie consciousness. michmed.org/4e2GP

Congrats to Panos Fotiadis- our incredible postdoc at the Center for Consciousness Science- who published a review on structure-function relationships in large-scale brain networks. See article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience with PhD mentor Dani Bassett: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Using k-means clustering to identify transient states, we revealed key differences between conscious and unconscious brain states in fMRI data. Our findings highlight how recurrent patterns could serve as generalizable markers of consciousness. nature.com/articles/s4200…

New article by Daniel Kruger, Jacob Aday, Kevin Boehnke, and other members of the Michigan Psychedelic Center. This important work investigated sexual misconduct and other adverse events in the context of psychedelics. Out now in Psychedelic Medicine: liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Hyunwoo Jang, neuroscience PhD student working in our center, has just published on consciousness and brain networks in Nature Communications! Hyunwoo- and faculty Zirui Huang, Tony Hudetz, George Mashour- tackle integration-segregation balance. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Check out our new preprint characterizing how human single-neuron activity is modulated by intracranial theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala! 🧠⚡️

Center for Consciousness Science faculty George Mashour and Dinesh Pal partner with chemistry professor Ted Goodson to image brain slices using ENTANGLED two-photon microscopy. Going quantum means orders of magnitude less energy! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

What do conscious state transitions & economic crises have in common? Find out in our new preprint on network recovery- from UnCheol Lee, George Mashour, & collaborators from the UM Center for Consciousness Science, University of Oxford, & South Korea! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

George Mashour, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed interim executive vice dean for academic affairs and the chief academic officer Michigan Medicine. His vision and exemplary leadership will continue to inspire and drive success University of Michigan. Congrats! michmed.org/2XbrY

Tune In, Turn On... and Wake Up! New preprint on psychedelic reversal of anesthesia from Emma Huels, Nick Kolbman, Dinesh Pal and other members of the UM Center for Consciousness Science. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Center for Consciousness Science founder George Mashour talks anesthetics with Geoff Turner for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) podcast "On Drugs"... open.spotify.com/episode/24QxPh…

Last week, the Michigan Psychedelic Center published the first ever clinical trial of psilocybin-assisted therapy (PAT) for a chronic pain condition. 🧵 U-M Consciousness & Psychedelics frontiersin.org/journals/pain-…

New article by the Michigan Psychedelic Center published in Translational Psychiatry- psilocybin induces acute reorganization of functional cortical networks in rodents. nature.com/articles/s4139…

Did you know that George Mashour, founding director of the Michigan Psychedelic Center, is also a psychedelic musician? Check out the article by Lori Stratton in PULP, the Ann Arbor arts blog.

It's alive!! The Global Psychedelic Survey (GPS) 2025 has launched worldwide. Take the survey here: michiganpsychedelic.med.umich.edu/research/globa…

The world psychedelic community speaks! Global Psychedelic Survey (GPS) 2025 just finished, with >8000 responses in >15 languages from >100 countries! Stay tuned for the studies, which will reflect a unique and unprecedented community-based perspective on psychedelics.

New article in SLEEP describing how glutamatergic neurons in the preoptic hypothalamus control sleep. NIH-funded work from Giancarlo Vanini, George Mashour, and more from the Center for Consciousness Science. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40417998/

Matthias Michel and I are pleased as punch to present the Fall schedule for the new MIT Consciousness Club. Room and Zoom links TBA sites.google.com/view/mit-consc… #neuroscience