"It is not always best simply to go back to what we had before. Health is more complicated than that." Beautiful essay. aeon.co/essays/regener… via Aeon Magazine

I guarantee the world is a slightly better place now. youtu.be/-mSgWPCgbSo?si…

What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Change starts with the body: Interoceptive appreciation mediates the effect of mindfulness training on behavior change sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My Online First chapter with Sylvie Droit-Volet in an upcoming Springer Nature book edited with Irina Strigo and Alan Simmons on "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig" link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

If this is the last thing I share on this channel, I'm okay with that. opb.org/article/2024/1…

My first attempt at putting a talk up directly here (I usually just add links to the video on our channel youtube.com/channel/UC3pVa…). Here goes: this was a ~55 minute presentation and I had been asked to talk about the "Multiscale Human" (for humanatlas.io/events/2024-24…). I cover the

Inside the battle for FDA approval of MDMA therapy bigthink.com/the-present/in…

Cozy Up with Our Holiday Reading List synergeticpress.com/blog/conscious… via Synergetic Press

The pupil of the eye opens a remarkable window into the mind – psyche.co/ideas/the-pupi… via Psyche Magazine

Ride along on a road trip suffused with LSD, petty theft and true love – psyche.co/films/ride-alo… via Psyche Magazine

How the “defiance domino effect” can improve your life and transform society bigthink.com/the-learning-c…

Great to finally get our research off the ground, funded, ready for clinically-rigorous testing and no longer accused of “pseudo-science”. Fantastic writing by Saga Briggs! bigthink.com/neuropsych/ins…

Inside the emerging world of anesthesia "dream therapy" bigthink.com/neuropsych/ins…

Anesthesia induced dreams may help ease anxiety and trauma. Dr. Harrison Chow (Harrison Chow, MD, MS, FASA) and Boris D. Heifets (Boris D Heifets) are discovering parallels between the potential of psychedelic therapy and anesthesia dreams.

Okay this is getting a little spooky

The quest for a “communication device” that tells cells to regenerate the body bigthink.com/health/the-que…

Michael Levin Tufts University Read the full article by Saga Briggs: bigthink.com/health/the-que…

Awesome piece. For an anaesthesiologist, intuition stands between life and death – aeon.co/essays/for-an-… via Aeon Magazine