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Congratulations to James Gross for winning the Association for Psychological Science Mentor Award & Amit Goldenberg (Amit Goldenberg) for winning the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions! Both are exceptional and it’s wonderful to see their work recognized in this way.

I wrote about people who had dream-like experiences when coming out of anesthesia, and said these dreams reduced their trauma symptoms. Intriguing case studies from Boris D Heifets, Harrison Chow, M.D., M.S., Pilleriin Sikka, and more at Stanford. psyche.co/ideas/could-dr…

Depression & mental health issues can worsen after major trauma, including surgery. We screened 3000 people coming for surgery Stanford Medicine for #depression to understand the extent of the problem. Just out in British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1st auth Dr. Tuuli Hietamies tinyurl.com/y5kptefw

Psychedelics don't quite fit into the standard way we evaluate drugs—randomized double-blind trials—as you can't really mistake MDMA for a placebo. Are psychedelics the problem? Or does our gold standard need updating? My first for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Anesthesia dream survey #884C This our lab’s first attempt to use ChatGpt to convert surgical anesthesia dream surveys (logged into Stanford Epic) into images. As we start our “dream” clinic work (4 volunteers in) and design our PTSD trials (foundation funding announcement

Psychedelics field looks ahead after FDA advisers' rejection. Commentary from Boris D Heifets Olson Lab Rachel Yehuda David Nutt Fred Barrett Dominic Sisti, Stephen Ross. "...this is a reminder and an invitation to the field to do better.” science.org/content/articl…

The ASSC conference in Tokyo is just around the corner, happening in about 10 days! More details of the program are now available assc27.net

Check out this fantastic review by Dr. Maia ten Brink (she/her) Pilleriin Sikka & co! In addition to providing a unifying framework for understanding sleep and affect regulation, they highlight key methodological considerations for the field moving forward. Truly fabulous work!!

Have you ever had emotions about your emotions (eg., being frustrated with yourself for being anxious)? In this new blogpost Psychology Today, Xavier Banson & Matt Dixon explore how we can be more compassionate with ourselves by learning to accept our emotions. psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/feel…

With Dr. David A Preece, Tabea Springstein, & Emily Willroth (& I'm sure many others) all accepting PhD students this year, it's an exciting time to jumping into affect science! Be sure to check out this fabulous (& insanely kind & productive) group of early career scholars when applying.

Moving to something less controversial than MDMA for a minute - *consciousness*! Join us in Tuscany, Italy Jan 26-31, 2025 for a Gordon Research Conference on Consciousness, Anesthesia & Evolutionary Biology. Incredible speaker lineup. grc.org/consciousness-…

Surreal to hold the first copies of HOPE FOR CYNICS! Based on thousands of hours of research and reporting, it reveals that cynicism is not as wise as we think, the average person is better than we realize, and hope is a wise, practical tool for community and social change

Stanford Anesthesia Dream survey #209 - ChatGPT image One of my personal favorites of the nearly 1000 anesthesia dreams I’ve witnessed in my long career. This patient was a young female who came to Silicon Valley to work in tech - alone. Now with diagnosis of breast cancer and

Psychedelics and autobiographical memory - Six open questions --- Commentary w Morten Lietz now out as preprint. We present 6 pressing, unanswered questions related to psychedelics and autobiographical memory and discuss why and how they should be studied. osf.io/preprints/psya…

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