great article by Sara Reardon in nature about the therapeutic mechanisms of #psychedelics nature.com/articles/d4158…

our latest review covering the effects of psychedelics on neuronal physiology: annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

article in The Atlantic on nonhallucinogenic psychoplastogens: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

nice article featuring Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics associate director John Gray cleveland.com/news/2023/11/a…

Congrats to the Delix team on their positive phase 1 results that they are presenting at ACNP! Also, super excited that Jeff Jonas, former CEO/CIO of Sage Therapeutics, will be joining the Delix SAB! businesswire.com/news/home/2023…

The Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics will be sending out their first newsletter soon. If you are interested in #psychedelics or #neurotherapeutics and would like to receive a copy, please sign up by clicking on the link on this page: neurotherapeutics.ucdavis.edu/news-1

Within #psychedelic science, the debate lingers: Is it mind-blowing experiences or powerful #molecules that spur change? Join To The Best Of Our Knowledge to hear David E. Olson's take. Also available on Spotify! youtu.be/JunhDmkrM88?si…

IPN director Olson Lab was interviewed for this PNAS news feature on the mechanisms of psychedelics pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics Director Olson Lab talks about psychedelics and nonhallucinogenic psychoplastogens on the The University of Chicago's Big Brains podcast news.uchicago.edu/psychedelics-w…

Check out the latest IPN paper in J. Med. Chem. on the development of psychoplastogenic DYRK1A inhibitors with potential for treating Alzheimer's disease especially early-onset Alzheimer's disease associated with Down Syndrome pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac….

The newest research from IPN Director Olson Lab and team suggests that tropane analogs can promote #neuroplasticity with fewer side effects than compounds like scopolamine. Read more here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

IPN faculty affiliate tina kim and team just published in Nature Methods about a protein-based tool expected to aid in identifying how #psychedelics impact brain disorders by tagging neurons activated by psychedelics. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out our latest collaboration with Christina Kim's Lab in Nature Methods: nature.com/articles/s4159… The number of neurons tagged with CaST in the PFC following psilocybin administration correlated with head-twitch response, but the number of cfos tagged neurons did not.

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Check out our latest collaboration in Science Magazine Magazine with tina kim's lab, where we re-activate psychedelic-responsive neurons to induce an anxiolytic effect without a head-twitch response. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Exciting new research in Science Magazine from the labs of IPN researchers tina kim Olson Lab reveals that the neural circuitry mediating the anti-anxiety and hallucinogenic effects of #psychedelics are distinct. UC Davis Center for Neuroscience UC Davis Letters and Science UCDavisMedSchool science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out our ibogaine total synthesis in Nature Chemistry! This was a tough project that took nearly a decade to complete by Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics researchers. Includes the synthesis of the unnatural enantiomer of ibogaine and ibogaine analogues that modulate SERT nature.com/articles/s4155…

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I love all of our papers equally, but I might love this one a bit more. Rare to see complex molecule total synthesis, molecular neuroscience, and behavioral neuropharmacology in the same paper! Thanks to everyone who helped make this work possible pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Check out our latest paper in Nature Neuroscience (rdcu.be/ey7yk). This was a great collaboration with some very surprising results! Seems a glutamate burst & proximate IEG expression might not be necessary for structural plasticity induced by 5-HT2A partial agonists.